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An Essay on the Principle of Population, an Uncommon card
The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
An Essay on the Principle of Population quiz: 3 questions
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In which decade?
The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in ____, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.
Answer
1790s. The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. From the An Essay on the Principle of Population article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Anti–money laundering. Anti–money laundering 87 · An Essay on the Principle of Population 80 · No-till farming 74 · Acrux 70 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The book warned of future difficulties, on an interpretation of the population increasing in geometric progression while food production increased in an arithmetic progression, which would leave a difference resulting in the want of food and famine, unless birth rates decreased.
- While it was not the first book on population, Malthus's book fuelled debate about the size of the population in Britain and contributed to the passing of the Census Act 1800.
- This Act enabled the holding of a national census in England, Wales and Scotland, starting in 1801 and continuing every ten years to the present.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, An Essay on the Principle of Population (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Lupo at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
