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Malthus

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Malthus
Thomas Robert. 1766--1834, English economist. He propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)


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Stepan Arkadyevitch described what grouse moors this Malthus had bought in the Tver province, and how they were preserved, and of the carriages and dogcarts in which the shooting party had been driven, and the luncheon pavilion that had been rigged up at the marsh.
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