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  1. 1766-1834. English economist and cleric,
  2. whose Essay on the Principle of Population
  3. 1798 (revised 1803) argued for population
  4. control, since populations increase in
  5. geometric ratio, and food only in arithmetic
  6. ratio. He saw war, famine, and disease as
  7. necessary checks on population growth. Later
  8. editions of his work suggested that `moral
  9. restraint' (delaying marriage, with sexual
  10. abstinence before it) could also keep numbers
  11. from increasing too quickly, a statement
  12. seized on by later birth-control pioneers
  13. (the `neo-Malthusians').
  14.