Word: malthusian
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...multiply more rapidly than its means of sustinence." Impressed by his son's views, Malthus Sr. encouraged Malthus Jr. to pen An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society. Published, elaborated in revision, this essay became widely known as the Malthusian Doctrine of Population, sneered .by economists, shunned by purists through the prosperous and socially restful 19th Century...
...entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might not be justifiable to sink it in a golf course. Universities require many things; this one in particular has certain pressing needs which seem to follow a sort of Malthusian law with to yard to the supply. The golfers will gave to be philosophic like the swimmers, the gymnasts and the polo-players...
Birth control has always been more or less closely associated with Malthusian doctrines of population, and many leading biologists and social scientists see in it the only practicable solution to the problem of subsistence, though most scientists are reserved in their support of the movement, and would stipulate certain eugenic safeguards. Among such thinkers might be mentioned Thomas Nixon Carver, Edward M. East, David Starr Jordan, G. Stanley Hall, Raymond Pearl, Franklin H. Giddings, Edward A. Ross, Irving Fisher, H. H. Goddard, Warner Fite, George H. Palmer, William P. Montague, Roswell H. Johnson, C C Little, Samuel J. Holmes, Henry...
...time will ever come when civilized nations will arbitrate what part of their population shall die," said Professor Edward Warren at the Law School reception last night. Professor Warren said that although he had the highest hope in the League of Nations yet the laws of evolution and the Malthusian theory present an almost impossible problem. He thought that to substitute "the force of law" for the "law of force" would "tax human ingenuity to the utmost." Yet he believed that in time the race might overcome more of its primeval instincts as it had conquered some in the past...
...Malthusian doctrine tenable...