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Improvement whose limit is unknown is wrongly taken for unlimited improvement
Drawn from what Thomas Robert Malthus said
What Thomas Robert Malthus actually said
- Thomas Robert Malthus English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834)
The error does not seem to lie in supposing a small degree of improvement possible, but in not discriminating between a small improvement, the limit of which is undefined, and an improvement really unlimited.
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↗An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, first edition)gutenberg.org
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