"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second."

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Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.5, University of Michigan Press

Thomas Malthus

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