BIOL 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Alfred Russel Wallace, Upper Class
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Malthus did get a lot of hatred for his views from social reformers. Men and women were separated in factories to discourage production of children. I(cid:374) order to i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s, so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) should e(cid:454)er(cid:272)ise (cid:862)(cid:373)oral restrai(cid:374)t(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) delaying the average age of marriage, or sexual abstinence or restraint in marriage (cid:862)the letter a(cid:374)d spirit of re(cid:448)elatio(cid:374)(cid:863) said te(cid:373)ptatio(cid:374)s should (cid:271)e resisted. Malthus"s populatio(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)s tur(cid:374)ed out to (cid:271)e (cid:272)orre(cid:272)t (cid:271)/(cid:272) the earth"s population exceeds 6 billion today. Criti(cid:272)s sa(cid:455) malthus (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e foreseen or agreed with contraception that allo(cid:449)ed europe"s populatio(cid:374) to de(cid:272)rease duri(cid:374)g the 19th and 20th century. He also wrongly assumed that only suffering could restrain population growth. More poverty actually induces more poverty (more children being produced) Upper class and middle class citizens actually produced less children than lower class: thus, improved living conditions and money motivated birth regulation, not poverty and disease.
