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- W59637706 abstract "Revelations of the end of the world have been vouchsafed to many prophets throughout the ages. Mostly these revelations were of the impending vengeance of the Lord on a sinful mankind. Others who have suffered from one of the many natural disasters of history might be forgiven for thinking that the end of the world had arrived. For many it was the end of their world as with the Minoan civilization which was swept away overnight some 2500 years ago as a result of the cataclysmic explosion of the island of Santorin in the Aegean Sea, which is considered by some to be the mythical Atlantis. In more recent times the concept of doomsday is not that of a single cataclysmic event, with the possible exception of an all-out atomic war, but rather an increasing rate of decline over maybe many decades. Probably this concept of a gradual slide into a dooms day situation derives from 'An Essay on the Principle of Population as it affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr Godwin, M. Condorcet, and other Writers' written by Thomas Robert Malthus and published in 1798. Malthus wrote this essay as a rebuttal of suggestions that the world was developing into a Utopian state. In his essay Malthus concludes:—" @default.
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