Malthus Married In 1804 And Beat Three

The Redundant Population, Necessarily Occasioned By The Prevalence Of Early Marriages, Must Be Repressed By Occasional Famines, And By The Custom Of Exposing Children, Which, In Times Of Distress, Is Probably More Frequent Than Is Ever Acknowledged To Europeans.

Malthus Married In 1804 And Beat Three Children With His Wife

In 1860, Sixty-three Per Cent Of The Couples Married In Great Britain Had Families Of Four Or More Children; In 1925 Only Twenty Per Cent Had More Than Four.

It Has Been Said, And Perhaps With Truth, That The Conclusions Of Political Economy Partake More Of The Certainty Of The Stricter Sciences Than Those Of Most Of The Other Branches Of Human Knowledge.

Population Trends Have Always Provoked Doom-fraught Oracles, Because Their Popular Interpreters Suppose That Every New Series Will Be Infinitely Sustained; Yet, Beyond The Short Term, Expectations Based On Them Are Never Fulfilled.