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Thomas Robert Malthus14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834 Applied the concept and principle of scarce resources to population development and behavior Thomas Malthus Malthus has become widely known for his theories about population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his An Essay on the Principle of Population, published from 1798 to 1826, observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine and disease. Thomas Malthus Thomas Robert Malthus was born in 1766, at Dorking, a place just south of London. Malthus married his cousin, Harriet, on April 12, 1804, and had three children: Henry, Emily and Lucy. In 1805 he became Professor of History and Political Economy at the East India Company College (now known as Haileybury) in Hertfordshire. An Essay on the Principle of Population Between 1798 and 1826 Malthus published six editions of his famous treatise, An Essay on the Principle of Population, updating each edition to incorporate new material, to address criticism, and to convey changes in his own perspectives on the subject. An Essay on the Principle of Population Malthus regarded ideals of future improvement in the lot of humanity with skepticism, considering that throughout history a segment of every human population seemed relegated to poverty. An Essay on the Principle of Population Malthus argued that two types of checks hold population within resource limits: positive checks, which raise the death rate (include hunger, disease and war). preventive checks, which lower the birth rate. (abortion, birth control, prostitution, postponement of marriage and celibacy). An Essay on the Principle of Population In the second and subsequent editions Malthus put more emphasis on moral restraint. By that he meant the postponement of marriage until people could support a family, coupled with strict celibacy (sexual abstinence) until that time.He went so far as to claim that moral restraint on a wide scale w