"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."

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"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."

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"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."

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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."

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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."

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"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."

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"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."

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"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."

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"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."

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