# Essay on the Principle of Population

An audiobook by Thomas Malthus, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 32 min, English).

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison with the second (Malthus).

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