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Malthusianism|mælˈθjuːzɪənɪz(ə)m|
[formed as prec. + -ism.]
The teaching of Malthus and his followers on the question of population.
T. R. Malthus in his Essay on Population (1798) contended that the rate of increase of the population being out of proportion to the increase of its means of subsistence, it should be checked, mainly by moral restraint. This has often been popularly viewed as a proposal to check marriage.
1848Mill Pol. Econ. (ed. 5) I. 450 Even Boards of Guardians..will seldom hear patiently of anything which they are pleased to designate as Malthusianism. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 21 Apr. 311/3 This religious Malthusianism is calculated to please the economists who think that the world is too small for mankind. |