"Proletariate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Malthus, who inferred therefrom a natural law constraining population to outrun the earth's increase. Malthus did not foresee the needs of the empire, nor realize that the rapid growth in the population of his day was largely due to the absence from the proletariate of a standard of comfort and decency. Without the Industrial Revolution Great Britain would not have been able to people the lands she had ...
— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard |
