"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
― Thomas Malthus
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- "I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
- "The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."
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