She also had a view of science that was unashamedly broad, taking in arts, literature and natural philosophy much in the mould of Erasmus Darwin at the end of the 18th century, whose tomes on botany and zoology were written in Wordsworthian verse.

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These challenges have contributed to a rebirth of the profoundly misguided philosophy espoused by Thomas Malthus, an English priest and economist who lived during the late 18th Century.

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