There should be no more people in a country than could enjoy a glass of wine or a piece of beef with their dinner.
--Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
--Isaiah 5:8, The Bible
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If the earth must lost that great proportion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.
--John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
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The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
--W.R. Inge (1860-1954), Dean of St. Paul's, London
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