"An Essay on the Principle of Population" was first published in 1798. This edition contains the original text, along with the author's (1803) revisions. Background and source materials include such writers as David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Contemporary commentary ranges fro[...]
Philip Appleman sagely and eloquently addresses such questions as where we came from, whether there is a God, and if there is, why there is so much evil and turmoil in the world. Putting this in the illuminating context of our evolutionary development and cultural history, he also ponders the notion[...]