A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
From Thomas Malthus
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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