What Thomas Robert Malthus thinks about happiness

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

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2 dated positions, c. 1798, in their own words. Our reading of what Thomas Robert Malthus has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1798

   Our readingRestraints on marriage produce vices that bring lasting unhappiness almost everywhere

   Their wordsThe effects, indeed, of these restraints upon marriage are but too conspicuous in the consequent vices that are produced in almost every part of the world, vices that are continually involving both sexes in inextricable unhappiness.

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

3. c. 1798

   Our readingWithout the poor laws the common people would on the whole have been much happier

   Their wordsThe evil is perhaps gone too far to be remedied, but I feel little doubt in my own mind that if the poor laws had never existed, though there might have been a few more instances of very severe distress, yet that the aggregate mass of happiness among the common people would have been much greater than it is at present.

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