He was a prominent English religious leader, educator, and analyst in the fields of politics and economics. His ideas became consequential and contentious in economic, political, social, and scientific circles.
It is only when such obvious truths are clothed in the technical terminology of positive and preventive checks that they appear novel and profound; and yet they appear to contain the whole message of Malthus to mankind.
A note in his diary, dated the 7th of November 1749, shows that he had then 4 Malthus quoted Franklin in his first edition, but it was not until the second that he introduced the theory of the preventive check.
malthus הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד