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The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Thomas Robert Malthus
Born: February 13, 1766
Died: December 29, 1834 (aged 68)
Bio: The Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.
Known for:
- An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
- Definitions in political economy (1827)
- On the Principle of Population
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