Malthus Married In 1804 And Beat Three

Population Regulates Itself By The Funds Which Are To Employ It, And Therefore Always Increases Or Diminishes With The Increase Or The Diminution Of Capital. Every Reduction Of Capital Is Therefore Necessarily Followed By A Less Effective Demand For Corn, By A Fall In Price, And By A Diminished Cultivation.

Every Endeavor Should Be Used To Weaken And Destroy All Those Institutions Relating To Corporations, Apprenticeships, &c, Which Cause The Labours Of Agriculture To Be Worse Paid Than The Labours Of Trade And Manufactures.

It Does Not, However, Seem Impossible That By An Attention To Breed, A Certain Degree Of Improvement, Similar To That Among Animals, Might Take Place Among Men. Whether Intellect Could Be Communicated May Be A Matter Of Doubt: But Size, Strength, Beauty, Complexion, And Perhaps Even Longevity Are In A Degree Transmissible... As The Human Race Could Not Be Improved In This Way, Without Condemning All The Bad Specimens To Celibacy, It Is Not Probable, That An Attention To Breed Should Ever Become General.

The Doctrine Of Population Has Been Conspicuously Absent, Not Because I Doubt In The Least Its Truth And Vast Importance, But Because It Forms No Part Of The Direct Problem Of Economics.

Where Are We To Look For The Consumption Required But Among The Unproductive Labourers Of Adam Smith?.