ycle then repeats (Stundbia 4). He also felt that the Poor Laws, which attempted to support those whose incomes were too low to support themselves, were in the long run more harmful than helpful. This just leads to lower wages and families that can not support the children they already have bearing more.
             Many people seem to think that war, famine, and plague will help keep the world's population restrained. These disasters are one of the two checks on the growth of population that Malthus identifies in "An Essay on the Principle of Population." He called these two checks positive checks and preventative checks. Positive checks are fa
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