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Malthus [mal-thuh s] Examples noun
- Thomas Robert,1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
Examples from the Web for malthus Historical Examples of malthus
Upon this point men were treated to nothing but vague phrases when Malthus lived.
Theodor Hertzka
If Godwin had pricked men’s consciences, Malthus brought the balm.
Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle
H. N. Brailsford
The exaggerations of Malthus’s law of population is a case in point.
John Spargo
It is the doctrine of Malthus applied in most cases with ten-fold force.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
It is the doctrine of Malthus applied in most cases with tenfold force.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society – Vol. 3
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British Dictionary definitions for malthus Malthus noun
- Thomas Robert. 1766–1834, English economist. He propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)