demographics 5
- Unchecked population grows geometrically, while subsistence grows only arithmetically
- No scheme of equality or land reform could lift population pressure for even a century
Thomas Robert Malthus
English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834); author of An Essay on the Principle of Population.
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What Thomas Robert Malthus says most about
happiness 4
- Without the poor laws the common people would on the whole have been much happier
- Unbroken prosperity tends to degrade character rather than raise it
agency 2
- A person may be convinced of a truth by reason yet still act against it
- Evil exists to spur action, so we should strive against it rather than submit