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"It is, undoubtedly, a most disheartening reflection that the great obstacle in the way to any extraordinary improvement in society is of a nature that we can never hope to overcome."

Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population (p. 269). Digireads.com. Kindle Edition.

"Mr. Godwin's ingenuity is more frequently employed in finding out evils than in suggesting practical remedies."

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"It has appeared, that from the inevitable laws of our nature some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank."

Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population (p. 156). Digireads.com. Kindle Edition.

"It may be expected that in the progress of the population of America, the labourers will in time be much less liberally rewarded."

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"The positive check to population, by which I mean the check that represses an increase which is already begun, is confined chiefly, though not perhaps solely, to the lowest orders of society."

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"One principal reason is that the histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes."

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It is an obvious truth, which has been taken notice of by many writers, that population must always be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence;

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