What Thomas Robert Malthus thinks about optimism

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

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c. 1798

Our readingIf its premises hold, the population argument rules out perfecting the mass of mankind

Their wordsConsequently, if the premises are just, the argument is conclusive against the perfectibility of the mass of mankind.

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