Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-02-14 | Page 4 | Today's Anniversary

I I S. S 1 ANNIVERSARY A TODAY'S t On Ott February 14 1766 Thomas I R R. Malthus famed English economist was born in Surrey England After private tutoring at home Malthus entered Cambridge from fromI which he ito graduated in 1788 Just ten years later he published his celebrated cele cele- Es Essay y on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement o of Society a publication tion on which his fame ante largely I rests In this e essay say Malthus main main- that population tends to main main-j Increase in increase increase in- in crease out of proportion to the in tn increase increase in- in crease of means of ot subsistence He lIe predicted a period of overproduction o I Ion on the earth and advocated ad moral I restraint In order to check the birth I Irn rn rate I Beginning in 1807 Malthus held throughout the remainder of his life the he professorship of history and political po po- econom economy in the East India company's college at Haileybury