It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.
Thomas MalthusIn general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
Thomas MalthusThe power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
Thomas Malthus