Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. Thomas Malthus More Quotes by Thomas Malthus More Quotes From Thomas Malthus It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products. Thomas Malthus demand important class It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. Thomas Malthus employment eight house Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures. Thomas Malthus agriculture corporations causes It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. Thomas Malthus agency philosophy fall To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man. Thomas Malthus recurrence misery men The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. Thomas Malthus economy mankind class Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. Thomas Malthus environmental population years I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. Thomas Malthus think experience truth knowledge
