It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in greater degree, or that animals are indefinitely perfectible.


Chapter IX, paragraph 9, lines 1-3 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised)

Thomas Robert Malthus Quotes

It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in greater degree, or that ...

It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in greater degree, or that ...

It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in greater degree, or that ...

It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in greater degree, or that ...