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Malthusianism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Growth of Population in the United Kingdom

There are all sorts of reasons why people are talking about population I mean on some level people have always been interested in population. By the end of the 18th century, it's almost doubled in size Which is in historical terms a very rapid growth of population indeed and even more than that you have certain parts of the country Lancashire for example The population has doubled in Lancashire in just the last 40 years of the18th century such very rapid growth. And population is moving around and living in slightly different ways and it's starting to become apparent.

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