Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
Ambrose BierceMALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
Ambrose Bierce