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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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At home Malthusians worried about the over-breeding of the lower classes while eugenicists bewailed the decline of the fertility of the "fit.
It gives the anti-Malthusians the chance to say again and again `I told you so,' and to relegate the Malthusians to the level of the soap box and the religious fanatic carrying the placard "The End is Near.
Together with the Malthusians, the adherents of a new science, eugenics, were rising to prominence.
 
 
 
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