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Malthus

noun
1.
An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).  Synonyms: Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus.



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"Malthus" Quotes from Famous Books



... things in its two weeks' sojourn in New York City, but it brought forth a real surprise yesterday in the person of Prof. Joseph French Johnson of New York University, who disclosed himself as a disciple of the late Thomas Robert Malthus, proponent of the theory that there can never be a happy society because population tends to increase at a much faster rate than the old earth, working overtime, can provide food, raiment, ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

... With my assistance, she was speedily removed into the house, and conveyed to a bedroom. A surgeon was sent for, but none was to be had; the only practitioner of the town being at that moment gone to attend one of those cases which, according to Mr Malthus, are much too frequent for the good of the country. I discovered that the carriage had been overturned, and that the young lady had ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat

... 'Progressive' tell us, is education - lessons on the piano, perhaps? Doctor Malthus would be more to the purpose; but how shall we administer his prescriptions? One thing we might try to teach to advantage, and that is the elementary principles of hygiene. I am heart and soul with the Progressive as to the ultimate remedial ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke



Words linked to "Malthus" :   Thomas Malthus, economic expert, economist, Malthusian, Thomas Robert Malthus



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