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 vist the human race. (Thomas Malthus)

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 vist the human race.

Thomas Malthus

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