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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Thomas Robert Malthus, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Wordsworth, Alan Paton, Laurence Sterne, Charles Kingsley, P. D. James, Thomas Browne, Dorothy L. Sayers, N. T. Wright, Stanley Hauerwas, Hanan Ashrawi, John Stott, Josephine Butler, John Macquarrie, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Keith Ward, Marcus Borg, Vera Brittain, Thomas Hughes, John Bainbridge Webster, Adrian Plass, Eric Kemp, William Ince, Edward Sell, Charles Augustus Briggs, Gary Wilde, Simon Bailey, John Taylor, Barbara Sleigh, Jane Shaw, Rico Tice, A. C. Benson, Edward Knapp-Fisher, Thomas Bradley, Vernon White, Richard Woodward, William Melmoth, Edwin Emmanuel Bradford, Maude Royden, Bob Jackson, Timothy Gorringe, Christabel Rose Coleridge, Gabriele Rossetti, Charles E. Raven, S. E. Cottam, Philip Loyd, Harry Blamires, John Trapp, William Mason, Vernon Staley. Excerpt: The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (14 February 1766 - 29 December 1834) was a British scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularised the economic theory of rent. Malthus has become widely known for his theories concerning population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his An Essay on the Principle of Population, published from 1798 to 1826, observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine and disease. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet, for example, believed in the possibility of almost limitless improvement of society. So, in a more complex way, did Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose notions centered on the goodness of man and the liberty of citizens bound only by the social contract-a form of popular sovereignty. Malthus thought that the dangers of population growth...
