Word: malthus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holland, Belgium, France and Germany now have Neo-Malthusian leagues. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834). English political economist, advocated drastic restrictions of populations to prevent people starving each other out. Contemporaries harried...
...central thesis of Malthus, that population tends naturally to increase faster than the means of subsistence, is accepted by every scholar and is easily demonstrable to all who grant the soundness of the elementary theorems of arithmetic. We can raise the saturation point of the earth in terms of population by new discoveries, as heat raises the saturation point of water in terms of various salts. But since we can neither enlarge our universe nor emigrate from it, we can never abrogate the law of population by such means, if prolific Nature is allowed full sway. We are trapped...
...League of Nations has done something to remove the more immediate threats of strained diplomatic relations. Yet the gamble of prestige still prevails as the favorite international game. Spurred by the law of Malthus the law of dictators, or the sensitive perversity characteristic of all national groups, the internal polities of the League is a frequent battleground for conflicting interests...
...still has its Eastern foibles. One of the most fundamental traditions, that of the harem, the present king has modified after the Oxford manner. Possibly, the high cost of educating young princes abroad caused this scion of a prolific family to be so far converted to the doctrines of Malthus, as to content himself with one wife...
...Thomas Robert Malthus, whose theories of population formed the bases of modern Birth Control...