But the deeper one goes into the subject, the more new and striking data does he discover, and the more Malthus’s fears appear groundless.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But the deeper one goes into the subject, the more new and striking data does he discover, and the more Malthus’s fears…”
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Kropotkin suggests that deeper investigation reveals Malthus's fears about resource scarcity to be unfounded.
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He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.
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