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| | The Book of Murder |
 | | Malthus, therefore, argued that it is not only useless but pernicious to relieve want, or to give to those who have not; because, by so doing, you only increase the future misery to which the human race are inevitably doomed. |
 | | Malthus has made two propositions, on which he appears to place great reliance for the purpose of decreasing and of gradually abolishing the poors’ rate, and of keeping the population within the means of comfortable subsistence. |
 | | Malthus, expressed in various passages in his book; but he has not ventured to propose infanticide as a remedy; he has, however, proposed one no more likely to be adopted than infanticide, nor less likely to produce intense suffering, but equally inefficient, to prevent the evil complained of. |
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