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Malthusianism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Principle of Population

If his predictions were true The population by the end of the 19th century would have been into hundreds of millions And that simply wasn't the case so these were not correct analyses. He softens the line in a very different second edition Uh of 1803 of the of the essay where he explores a possible solution to this problem. If people would only marry a bit later Have fewer children than we might bar up by our own endeavors be able to avert catastrophe.

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