A.E. Samaan Quotes

“Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.”

“Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.”

“The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.”

“I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.”

“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.”

“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”

“I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.”

“In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.”

“Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.”

“I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born.”