Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus was born in 1766 in Dorking, England, just south of London. He was the second of eight children. His father had worked with Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hume. He was privately educated by his father and by tutors when he was a child. When he was eighteen, Malthus went to Cambridge, which is a Jesuit college. Malthus became a curate of England, in Albury while at college. He took up his parochial duties in 1796. …

…government intervention. People are free to create businesses and decide what they want to do and decide how much to pay their laborers. Capitalism is a very “hands-off” way of government. Malthus used many men’s ideas to come up with his own, pulling bits and pieces from a lot of things he read. He also influenced other men, as well. He influenced Darwin and his theory of evolution, that only the strong shall survive.