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catalyst-45809	Waldby, Catherine	Malthusian Discontents	2025	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1360	58	41	Because land is inherently finite, and cannot be increased, this dynamic can only be avoided by constraints on human sexual desire, particularly late, provident marriage. His famous Essay on the Principle of Population (there were several versions) addresses the consequences of his claim that the both the underlying dynamics of population growth and the capacity for agricultural production are constants: Population increases geometrically while agriculture, constrained by land scarcity, grows arithmetically (Malthus 1798).	cache/catalyst-45809.pdf	txt/catalyst-45809.txt