The Perpetual Struggle for Room and Food

The English economist Robert Malthus, in his essay "On the Principles of Population" written in 1798, uses this telling phrase to describe much of the the underlying motives of the human condition. He suggests that it is the cause of a 'prodigious waste of human life'. The basic need for food and shelter must be met before man can entertain much consideration of the nature of life and the existence of God. It is a struggle still being undertaken today by much of the developing world.