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In his autobiography, Darwin wrote:
In October 1838, that is fifteen months after I had begun my sys-
tematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on
Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for
existence that everywhere goes on from long-continued observa-
tion of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that
under these circumstances, favourable variations would tend to
be preserved and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result
of this would be the formation of new species. Here, then, I had at
last got a theory by which to work... 12
The concepts of evolution by natural selection and the
struggle for survival took shape in Darwin's mind after reading
Malthus. In The Origin of Species Darwin admitted that he had
fully accepted Malthus's claims:

Malthus's distorted lo-
gic was also applied to
children, many of whom
were forced to work
under very harsh
conditions.

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