The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.


An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

Thomas Robert Malthus Quotes

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, ...

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, ...

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, ...

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, ...