Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A doctrine advocating control of population growth.
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Examples
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Originally it was called Neo-Malthusianism, a name that would have made Malthus wince, for he disapproved of the practice.
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Originally it was called Neo-Malthusianism, a name that would have made Malthus wince, for he disapproved of the practice.
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Right, academia has brought us many fine things … Bolshevism, Fascism, Neo-Malthusianism.
Think Progress » Virginians Buck Far-Right Policies Of McDonnell And Cuccinelli
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Environmental awareness might influence birth-rates (as in the European Neo-Malthusianism of 1900 and in China since 1980).
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth
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Oct. 2 & 9, 1830; and Himes, "Robert Dale Owen, The Pioneer of American Neo-Malthusianism." back
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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Malthusians, being "the only country where Neo-Malthusianism has been given the opportunity of diminishing the excessive birth-rate on eugenic lines, i.e. in the reduction of the fertility of the poorest classes," [38] and where a "considerable rise in the wages and general prosperity appears to have taken place side by side with an unprecedented increase of population."
Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians
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"Secularism, Socialism, and Neo-Malthusianism," combined with the sale of contraceptives.
Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians
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Neo-Malthusianism assumes that population if unchecked will exceed subsistence, but by subsistence it means a liberal, or even a progressively rising, standard of comfort.
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Now it is quite unlikely that a Socialistic organization of production, with its lessened incentives to inventive and productive energy, would be able to provide means of living adequate to the full capacity of human fecundity; and a universally and continuously rising standard of comfort would be subject to all the physical, moral, and intellectual hindrances and consequences which beset the suicidal system of Neo-Malthusianism.
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Neo-Malthusianism means not a higher but a lower plane of life; not more genuine culture or loftier morals, but more abundant physical enjoyments and a more refined materialism.
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