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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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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.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin suggests that deeper investigation reveals Malthus's fears about resource scarcity to be unfounded.

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