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Thomas Malthus Quotes
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The question is, what is saving? (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
Man cannot live in the midst of plenty (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
The perpetual struggle for room and food (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man (Thomas Malthus Quotes)
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general (Thomas Malthus Quotes)