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virtues and the fear of God they exhibit, not material means or
physical attributes.

In the wake of the French Revolution, however, the British
middle class provided enormous support for Malthusianism.
Fearing that they might no longer maintain their former pre-em-
inence and power, they had no hesitation over adopting radical
measures to preserve them. This is one of the characteristic er-
rors made by those who distance themselves from religious
moral values. The elite of that time thought that society's future
lay in there being as many wealthy and as few poor as possible.
Of course it is desirable to raise the number of wealthy people
and the level of well-being in a society. However, the methods
implemented to increase that well-being are of greatest impor-
tance. Raising the numbers of the wealthy by slaughtering the
poor and oppressing the needy, as Social Darwinism suggests, is
totally unacceptable, of course. Furthermore, increasing the
number of wealthy individuals is, by itself, not enough for a so-
ciety to progress. If those wealthy people lack such religious
moral values as honesty, altruism, modesty, patience, and toler-
ance, their industry will damage a society instead of benefiting

it. Plans aimed at advancing societies can achieve their objective
only if that society reinforces its spiritual values at the same time
as it makes material progress.
However, many in Malthus's time failed to realize this
manifest truth and supported the perverted views that would
later lead their societies into moral collapse.
To halt the rise in population, these were some of the ruth-
less solutions Malthus suggested:
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should en-
courage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the
streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court
the return of the plague. In the country, we should build our vil-

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar