Frases célebres de Thomas Malthus
El prefacio pertenece a la edición de 1798 que Malthus realizó de forma anónima, por lo que en la cita se refiere a sí mismo.
Original: «The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced eye or an inherent spleen of disposition».
Fuente: An Essay on the Principle of Population. T. R. Malthus. Editorial Courier Corporation, 2012. ISBN 9780486115771. Página IV del Prefacio. https://books.google.es/books?id=0qYXcMM3hqYC&pg=PR4&dq=The+view+which+he+has+given+of+human+life+has+a+melancholy+hue,&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiry9rxo-vgAhXNx4UKHREHAHAQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=The%20view%20which%20he%20has%20given%20of%20human%20life%20has%20a%20melancholy%20hue%2C&f=false
Original: «Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. We are not patiently to submit to it, but to exert ourselves to avoid it».
Fuente: An Essay on the Principle of Population. T. R. Malthus. Editorial Courier Corporation, 2012. ISBN 9780486115771. Página 152. https://books.google.es/books?id=0qYXcMM3hqYC&pg=PR4&dq=The+view+which+he+has+given+of+human+life+has+a+melancholy+hue,&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiry9rxo-vgAhXNx4UKHREHAHAQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=%20but%20activity.%20We%20are%20not%20patiently%20to%20submit%20to%20it%2C%20but%20to%20exert%20ourselves%20to%20avoid%20it&f=false
Original: «I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born».
Fuente: An Essay on the Principle of Population. T. R. Malthus. Editorial Courier Corporation, 2012. ISBN 9780486115771. Página 137. https://books.google.es/books?id=0qYXcMM3hqYC&pg=PR4&dq=The+view+which+he+has+given+of+human+life+has+a+melancholy+hue,&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiry9rxo-vgAhXNx4UKHREHAHAQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=I%20should%20be%20inclined%2C%20therefore%2C%20as%20I%20have%20hinted%20before%2C%20to%20consider%20the%20world%20and%20&f=false
Thomas Malthus: Frases en inglés
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.”
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter X, paragraph 7, line 1
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter VII, paragraph 10, lines 8-10
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.”
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter V, paragraph 25, lines 4-5
“I happen to have a very bad fit of the tooth-ache at the time I am writing this.”
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XII, paragraph 6, lines 8-9
Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 412-413
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
“The question is, what is saving?”
Book I, Chapter I, Of The Definitions of Wealth and of Productive Labour, Section II, p. 40
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter IX, paragraph 7, lines 1-4
Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 437
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 430
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter VII, paragraph 20, lines 2-4
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 410
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter V, paragraph 23, lines 3-7
Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 414 (See also: Karl Marx, Capital Volume I, Chapter 25, Section 4(e), p. 742
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter I, paragraph 9, lines 1-2
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter IX, paragraph 14, lines 22-27 ( see also eugenics)
“Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.”
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XIX, paragraph 15, line 1
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XIV, paragraph 9
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter V, paragraph 2, lines 1-5
“It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.”
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 403
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book I, Chapter I, Of The Definitions of Wealth and of Productive Labour, Section II, p. 43
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book I, Chapter III, Of the Rent of Land, Section IX, p. 216
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter V, paragraph 13, lines 1-3
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.”
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section V, p. 355
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book I, Introduction, p. 8
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XIII, paragraph 2, lines 19-22
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section VII, p. 374
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
