3. Malthus Theory of Population
Return to History 8 Historiography ID's
Thomas Robert Malthus was born on 13 February 1766 at Westcott, Surrey, Great Britain. Malthus entered Jesus College in 1784, and graduated with a Master of Arts and honors in 1791. Malthus started his career with the study
Malthus believed that there were not enough resources on the Earth for all of the humans to share. He believes that things should be given to the wealthy and none for the poor. He also thought that if there were less human beings then the wealthy could enjoy their resources. He took action by proposing that the poor should have a limit to the number of children they could have further reducing the amount of poor people to the society. His reasoning behind such radical thinking was that famine and poverty were natural outcomes that were bestowed upon them by God. He thought that such natural outcomes were to stop man from being lazy. A collaboration of Lawrence and Dre
