Thomas Robert Malthus Quote

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.


Parallel Chapters from the First and Second Editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population (ed. 1798)


Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.