What Thomas Robert Malthus thinks about government

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English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834); author of An Essay on the Principle of Population.

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1. c. 1798

   Our readingThe poor laws in some measure create the poor they maintain

   Their wordsThey may be said therefore in some measure to create the poor which they maintain, and as the provisions of the country must, in consequence of the increased population, be distributed to every man in smaller proportions, it is evident that the labour of those who are not supported by parish assistance will purchase a smaller quantity of provisions than before and consequently more of them must be driven to ask for support.

   ↗An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, first edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book