The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. – Thomas Malthus
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus
In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave…. Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Fantine, translated from French by Chas. E. Wi