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Thomas Robert Malthus on Philosophy

1766–1834 England

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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798)

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798)

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