Thomas Malthus：An Essay on the Principle of Population, Excerpt 136

Mr Godwin's five propositions respecting political truth, on which his whole work hinges, not established--Reasons we have for supposing, from the distress occasioned by the principle of population, that the vices and moral weakness of man can never be wholly eradicated--Perfectibility, in the sense in which Mr Godwin uses the term, not applicable to man--Nature of the real perfectibility of man illustrated.

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