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The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 218 — Chapter IV

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Voltaire says in the Dictionnaire Philosophique (art. 'Population'): 'On ne propage point en Progression Géométrique. Tous les calculs qu'on a faits sur cette prétendue multiplication sont des chimères absurdes.' They had been used to reconcile the story of the deluge with the admitted population of the world soon afterwards.

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