• The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

  Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4

  Thomas Malthus
  English cleric and scholar 1766-1834
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1. subsistence
2. premature
3. produce
4. death
5. shape
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