THOMAS MALTHUS first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798.

托马斯马尔萨斯在1798年首次发表的《人口论》中, 他预测, 人口的的增长将超越世界粮食供应能力.

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Then came Thomas Robert Malthus [1766-1834] with the discovery that nature does not provide the means of existence for everybody.

后来，马尔萨斯(Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766 - 1834)发现，自然界并没有给每个人提供生存手段。

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He was influenced by Thomas Malthus' work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written in seventeen ninety-eight.

他受到托马斯·马尔萨斯作品《An Essay on the Principle of Population》(《人口原理》)的影响，这部著作，马尔萨斯写于1798年。

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He was influenced by Thomas Malthus' work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written in seventeen ninety-eight.

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Like Thomas Malthus, whose work he cited, Knowlton was worried about the hazards of fertility.

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He has a lot of company in that view, going back to Thomas Malthus.

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The industrial revolution gave us the Reverend Thomas Malthus, that most fearful of latter-day apocalyptics.

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