In one work, this thinker wrote that "the proper office of benevolence is to soften the partial evils arising from self-love, but it can never be substituted in its place."
In one work, this thinker wrote that "the proper office of benevolence is to soften the partial evils arising from self-love, but it can never be substituted in its place." He called for less reliance on foreign politics in The Grounds of an Opinion, while another work defines a certain concept as "the reward of present valour and wisdom as well as of past strength." Elsewhere, he argued that "moral restraint" is the only feasible "preventative check," but will not succeed without universal suffrage and education. This author of Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent used that work to present some "Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, Condorcet, and Other Writers," arguing that means of subsistence increase by an arithmetic ratio doomed to lag behind the geometric ratio of population increase. For 10 points, name this British classical economist who wrote Essay on the Principal of Population.
In one work, this thinker wrote that "the proper office of benevolence is to soften the partial evils arising from self-love, but it can never be substituted in its place."
Thomas Malthus