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Evil exists to spur action, so we should strive against it rather than submit
Drawn from what Thomas Robert Malthus said
What Thomas Robert Malthus actually said
- Thomas Robert Malthus English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834)
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. We are not patiently to submit to it, but to exert ourselves to avoid it.
Where this was said
↗An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, first edition)gutenberg.org
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