A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Thomas MalthusThe first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
Thomas MalthusThe most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
Thomas MalthusIt 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 Malthus