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For an equal society the population difficulty would be immediate, not a remote one
Drawn from what Thomas Robert Malthus said
What Thomas Robert Malthus actually said
- Thomas Robert Malthus English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834)
An event at such a distance might fairly be left to providence, but the truth is that if the view of the argument given in this Essay be just the difficulty, so far from being remote, would be imminent and immediate.
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↗An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, first edition)gutenberg.org
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