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"Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilized society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which their fruitful marriages produce."
VIII. Book I. Of the Wages of Labour. Smith, Adam. 1909-14. Wealth of Nations. The Harvard Classics.
Is scantiness the only way to stop poor people from reproducing?
Or have the last 200 years proved him wrong?
VIII. Book I. Of the Wages of Labour. Smith, Adam. 1909-14. Wealth of Nations. The Harvard Classics.
Is scantiness the only way to stop poor people from reproducing?
Or have the last 200 years proved him wrong?