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Malthusianism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Darwin and Malthus

Malthus and his ideas about the negative consequences of giving parish relief were taken up by Charles darwin. We can certainly see that those ideas are filtering. There's no doubt that Darwin made a kind of intellectual leap as a result of reading malthus But the rest was entirely his own doing.

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