«La popolazione, quando non è frenata, aumenta in progressione geometrica. La sussistenza aumenta solo in progressione aritmetica.»
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«Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.»
— Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
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