Thomas Robert Malthus Quote

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.


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


It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he ...

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he ...

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he ...

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he ...