- Two difficulties facing the perfectibility of man are that food is necessary to the existence of man and the passion between the sexes is and will remain necessary.
- These two natural laws will never cease
- Since these two laws exist, the population will be greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man
- Population will always grow in a geometrical ratio while subsistence only increase in an arithmetical ratio
- The world must try to keep these two unequal powers equal
Population's Effects on Human Happiness:
- The different ratios of population and subsistence keep the population in check
- The scarcity of subsistence prematurely tend to weaken and destroy the human frame
- People should prevent having too many kids whom they cannot provide for
- Positive checks to population are diseases, wars, famine, extreme labor, extreme poverty, and bad nursing of children
Population and Poverty:
- When a man can barely afford to provide for two children and he has five children, he blames everybody else except himself for being in poverty
- People must take responsibility for the amount of children that they have
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