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ˌneo-Malˈthusian, a. and n.
Also Neo-Malthusian.
[f. neo- + Malthusian a. and n.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the belief that the size of population should be controlled, spec. by the use of contraceptives.
B. n. An advocate of birth control or the limitation of population. So ˌneo-Malˈthusianism.
1885J. Bonar Malthus i. i. 24 The questions associated in our own times with Neo-Malthusianism. 1901J. A. Godfrey Sci. Sex ii. vi. 253 The main points to be proved by the Neo-malthusian are, therefore, that it is advisable for society to have some means of checking the increase of population in advance, and that the means now at hand are both harmless and effective. 1910G. B. Shaw Brieux: a Preface 31 Just about forty years ago the propaganda of Neo-Malthusianism changed the bearing of children from an involuntary condition of marriage to a voluntary one. Ibid., The expectation of the Neo-Malthusians that the regulation of births in our families would give the fewer children born a better chance of survival..has no doubt been fulfilled in some cases. 1911H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VI. xii. 594 James Mill was the pioneer in advocating Neo-Malthusian methods. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 255 You cannot teach primitive Indians to practise the Neo-Malthusian techniques and expect them to remain primitive Indians. 1934H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiogr. II. vii. 436 The spreading knowledge of birth-control,—Neo-Malthusianism was our name for it in those days—seemed to justify my contention that love was now to be taken more lightly than it had been in the past. 1962Punch 3 Jan. 52/1 Some neo-Malthusians have been heard to suggest that the bomb is Nature's Way..of checking..the..over-spawning of our species. 1967Listener 20 July 94/2 Mr Eversley..dispelled any doubt in the minds of those listeners who felt guilty about having ‘two children and a motor-car’—apparently anti-social luxuries in the neo-Malthusian wave. |