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of that dilemma, the ruling class in Britain drew the conclusion
that the “lower class” had to be weakened, brought under con-

trol, oppressed, and put to work. In stating that food resources
were insufficient in the face of a rapidly rising population,
Malthus suggested that the solution lay in preventing the
“lower orders” from multiplying, thus causing a number of
measures to be taken against the poor. By applying Malthus's
thesis to natural sciences and biology, Darwin provided the
claim with a fictitious scientific guise.
In his book Social Darwinism in American Thought, Richard
Hofstadter says this about Darwin's support for Malthus's the-
sis:
Malthusianism had become popular in England... it had also been
used to relieve the rich of responsibility for the sufferings of the
poor. Malthus had been proved wrong by the course of events;
and just when his theory was dying out in political economy it re-
ceived fresh support from Darwinian biology. 15

In an article, researcher and author Ian Taylor has this to
say about the degenerate ideas in Malthus's thesis:
The lesson in all this is that Darwin and others who reject both
God and the promise of His providence and intervention have
found in the Malthus principle a terrifying spectre of tragedy and
despair that has driven them into unspeakable ethical and absurd
scientific propositions. This in spite of the obvious weaknesses
and deficiencies in Malthus argument. 16
Although science refuted Malthus's “ruthless, despair-in-
ducing, nonsensical” claim, it has still managed to remain influ-
ential up to the present day. Ian Taylor's book In the Minds of Men
summarizes the chain of ruthlessness that began with Malthus
and ended with Hitler:

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