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Another familiar anti-Malthusian argument is that modern methods of birth control can keep population down to manageable levels.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the people were believers in big families, and agreed to have twelve children—no anti-Malthusian would expect more than that—they would be entitled to twelve relations during their marital life.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by Robinson, William J.

In our little historical gallery we find this philanthropic anti-Malthusian at the head of an establishment of this kind, introducing a very meek, simple-looking bachelor to some distinguished ladies of his connoissance.

From The Paris Sketch Book by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses," he couples it with plough, in those anti-Malthusian lines: "The world is of a large extent we see, And must be peopled: children there must be!—

From Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George