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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

Thomas Malthus
Men, Ratios, Population
Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.