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I Said that population, when unchecked, increased in a geometrical ratio; and subsistence for man in an arithmetical ratio.
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Malthus, T.R. (1966). Chap. II. In: First Essay on Population 1798. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81729-0_2
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