Thomas Malthus: Frases de vida
Thomas Malthus era científico inglés. Explorar las citas interesantes en vida..
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: «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