Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
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Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
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