Thomas Malthus：An Essay on the Principle of Population, Excerpt 23

The different ratio in which population and food increase--The necessary effects of these different ratios of increase--Oscillation produced by them in the condition of the lower classes of society--Reasons why this oscillation has not been so much observed as might be expected--Three propositions on which the general argument of the Essay depends--The different states in which mankind have been known to exist proposed to be examined with reference to these three propositions.

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