Creative Quotations from Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Thomas Malthus
(1766-1834) born on Feb 17

English economist. "He pioneered the studies in modern population; wrote "Essays on the Principle of Population," 1798."

The histories of mankind . . . are histories only of the higher classes.

Virtue: to resist all temptation to evil.

"Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical progression of such a nature as to double itself every twenty-five years."

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

[Survival is] the perpetual struggle for room and food.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases," by Donald Bolander, 1987."
R:	"In "The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases," by Donald Bolander, 1987."
A:	""A Summary View of the Principle of Population," 1830."
N:	""Essays on The Principle of Population.""
K:	""Essays on The Principle of Population.""