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tance... The [illegitimate] infant is, comparatively speaking, of little value to the society, as others will im-
mediately supply its place... All the children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the popu-
lation to this [desired] level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the deaths of
grown persons. 9

Malthus possessed a sufficiently twisted logical framework as to justify letting newborns die for the
future of society. You might well assume that such perverted views are a thing of the past and could no

longer be accepted by anyone today. Yet that is not the case. In modern-day China, population planning
is carried out by means of the killing of newborn babies—making it easy to see the permanent effects on
societies of the destructive views of Malthus and his follower Darwin. The communist Chinese state

seeks to prevent its own people from living by religious moral values, and looks at them through a
Darwinist eye. For that reason, in addition to the enormous social and moral collapse, human beings are
forced to work in labor camps devoid of the most basic humane conditions. Children of parents with al-
ready more children than the number permitted by the state are collected and killed. People are execut-
ed for "thought crimes," the executions themselves having assumed the form of societal ceremonies.

Contemporary China is an example of what awaits a society that falls under the influence of Darwinist
views.
Malthus's theses not only prepared an oppressive law that further worsened the conditions of the

poor in England, they also made social problems even more intractable. These theses, which still have
their proponents today, and which led the way to a theory such as Darwinism which inflicted disasters
like chaos, war, racism and atheism on the 20th century, have no valid scientific foundations whatsoev-
er. Indeed, Malthus's ideas were inspired by a story relating to goats and dogs, the truth of which no-
body could be sure of.

From Goats and Dogs to Darwinism

Malthus's real source of inspiration for his Essay was a story about goats on a Southeast Pacific is-
land, said to have been left there by Juan Fernandez, a Spanish sailor. According to the tale, these goats
multiplied and became a source of meat for mariners calling at the island. But the goats rapidly grew in
number and began to consume all the sources of food on the island. In order to prevent British priva-

teers—who molested Spanish trade—from making use of the goats' meat, the Spanish landed male and
female dogs on the island. In time, the dogs began to grow in number, and killed most of the goats.
Condorcet Townsend, the French mathematician and revolutionary, wrote that in this way, a natur-
al equilibrium was established. "The weakest of both species," he went on to say, "were the first to pay

the debt of nature; the most active and vigorous preserved their lives. It is the quantity of food which
regulates the number of the human species." 10
As we already stated, various natural circumstances may have an effect on an animal's numbers in-
creasing or declining and on species surviving or becoming extinct. Yet it is a grave error to suppose that

this dynamic also applies to human societies, and experience shows the terrible results of putting such
an error into practice.
Under the Poor Law then in force in Great Britain, the poor were not left to go hungry, but were
forced to work very hard. Townsend maintained that these laws obliging the poor to work resulted in

excessive difficulties and protests. Instead, he claimed that it was more reasonable to bring the poor to
heel by means of hunger. According to Townsend, "hunger will tame the fiercest animals, and will teach
them civility, obedience, and subjection." 11 At the root of that ruthless and unconscionable attitude lies
the error of classing people according to their material means and physical attributes. Such discrimina-

tion, totally incompatible with religious moral values, has disrupted the social order and led to chaos,
anarchy and conflict throughout history.
After Townsend, the story of the goats and dogs also constituted the basis of Malthus's theses. It al-

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