The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.

Capitals accumulate faster than population

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.