And our current interest in Malthus may, too, prove short-lived if a new green revolution, for example, sweeps Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Thomas Malthus « Isegoria] Reference

Malthus is one example, and so are all those who predicted people would die if they traveled faster than a hundred miles an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [June « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference

People called Malthus a cold-blooded philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equality] Reference

Malthus frightened the world by discussing the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood] Reference

Malthus, Thomas Robert, Essay on Population, pp. 15 ff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classical economics] Reference

Malthus noted the increase and the result it portended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and Society~ Chapter 15~ Ideological Unity and Economic Realism] Reference

Malthus formulated a famous over-population fear-thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference

Marx developed many of his views in opposition to Malthus.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 2] Reference

Onan and Malthus as household gods are worse than the gods of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference

Ricardo and Malthus will be to Carey as Ptolemy to Copernicus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Natural Selection which arose in his mind after reading Malthus on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

But stay in bed not losing any sleep, no doubt Malthus will provide.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

The point was crystal-clear to Malthus even without a complex model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources, Population, Environment~ an Oversupply Of False Bad News (historical)] Reference

It is the doctrine of Malthus applied in most cases with tenfold force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

This prevented for a time the full impact of the consequences foreseen by Malthus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and Society~ Chapter 15~ Ideological Unity and Economic Realism] Reference

Darwin read Malthus in 1838 and immediately realized how it applied to his own work.    From Wordnik.com.  [150th Anniversary of Theory of Evolution] Reference

According to Malthus, the Human race would have run out of sustenance centuries ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Queen Victoria herself, Malthus or Martineau, one, or both of them, must answer for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

Ricardo looked at the same world as Malthus and came up with another set of conclusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and Society~ Chapter 15~ Ideological Unity and Economic Realism] Reference

The models of Malthus and Ricardo led to classical economics being called the “dismal science.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 2] Reference

Verily we need a new Political Economy written, deeper than that of Malthus or Smith, to inform them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

But this criticism did not touch the real error of Malthus (which has apparently remained unnoticed).    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and economic myths (historical)] Reference

Malthus observed that population was held in check because not every individual would survive to reproduce.    From Wordnik.com.  [150th Anniversary of Theory of Evolution] Reference

This reflection about Malthus has often comforted me when I have been vexed at the misstatement of my views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

Population, as Malthus said, naturally tends to grow "geometrically," or, as we would now say, exponentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tragedy of the Commons (historical)] Reference

Everybody knows that the Malthusian -- Malthus was a man who said population is going to increase at this rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2004] Reference

For some very penetrating discussions of Malthus and of the present population pressure, see references 76 and 77.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and economic myths (historical)] Reference

For other examples refer to "The Ode to Malthus" and "The Blow-up," which pain the sides while they cheer the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference

Malthus, Thomas Robert, An Essay on the Principle of Population, ed. Philip Appleman, ed. (New York: Norton, 1976), pp. 15ff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classical economics] Reference

Just as the significance of Malthus' observation had remained unnoticed until the time was ripe, so did Mendel's contribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [150th Anniversary of Theory of Evolution] Reference

But as his biographer, James Bonar notes, the logic that led Malthus to this conclusion was apparently lost on his contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classical economics] Reference

In every moral aspect of the case, John Mill is opposed to Malthus, and his followers have no right to call themselves Malthusians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

It may be objected that the removal of economic pressure would bring an undue increase in population and the evils that Malthus feared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save The Planet Protest: James J. Lee's Demands (TEXT)] Reference

It replaced the previous belief that the poor were divinely-ordained or, as Malthus argued, an unavoidable expression of the natural order.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference