The belief that population tends to increase at a faster rate than its means of subsistence and that unless it is checked by moral restraint or by disease, famine, war, or other disaster widespread poverty and degradation inevitably result.

Mal*thu"sian*ism (?), n.

The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.

 

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