Quotes by Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

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The real perfectibility of man may be illustrated, as I havementioned before, by the perfectibility of a plant. The obje — Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement — Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual — Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
as long as agreat number of those impressions which form character, like the nicemotions of the arm, remain absolutely i — Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
The lower classes of people in Europe may at some future periodbe much better instructed than they are at present; they — Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population