Word: mathusians
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Double Crisis," which gives a dreary Mathusian view of an overpopulated, starving world, is an unsatisfying conclusion to the volume. The change from a critical to a vaguely constructive approach afflicts Mr. Huxley's usually confident style with a certain awkwardness. And most of his observations and proposals are either aged or admittedly impractical, leaving an impression of dilettantism which one does not receive from the critical works in this volume...
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