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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
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