...Revolution (New York: Norton, 1959), p. 165. Darwin speaks directly of the universal struggle for life as "the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdom" (Origin 75). In fact, Malthusianism was more than an analogy to the theory of natural selection;...

...concept of the 'struggle for existence', Darwin (1979: 117) openly acknowledged his debt to Malthus: 'It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold...and no prudential restraint from marriage.' Although not publicly acknowledged by Darwin, Adam Smith, another great observer of, and thinker about, the...

...Malthus: 'It is the docttine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegerable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial...increase of food, and no prudential restraint from martiage.' Although not publicly acknowledged by Darwin, Adam Smith, another great observer of, and...

...are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be a struggle for existence . . . It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms (54). Darwin read Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population in 1830, "and made his revolutionary...

...either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine...with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdom; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, 16 and no prudential restraint...

...struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold...force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms,' he wrote (1958, p. 376). In a universal struggle for existence, the right of the strongest prevails....

..."natural selection" was thus responsible for gradual change. Darwin said that his hypothesis was simply "the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdom," but he was being a bit modest. Malthus' s ideas were only analogies to what Darwin came up...

...continuous change in organic forms, which eventually differentiate enough to become new species.5 This is "the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold...of food and no prudential restraint from marriage." "It is therefore perhaps not surprising," Antony Flew continued from Darwin's comment, "that the logical...

...Indian community. Darwin took Malthus and applied his analysis of human history to all God's creatures: "It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold...force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms." Darwin was a candidate for Holy Orders when, twenty-two years old, he set sail on the HMS Beagle in...

...either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine...of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage. The next question, of course, was whether success or failure in the struggle for existence was a matter...