Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) British political economist
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth: Hemingstein's Law on the Dynamics of Dying.”
Pt. 2, Ch. 7
Papa Hemingway (1966)
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