The Malthusian Handbook Designed to Induce Married People to Limit Their Families Within Their Means.

"The Malthusian Handbook" by Anonymous is a late 19th-century guide that tackles poverty by linking it to population growth, specifically in 1898. It suggests that a surge in population causes societal chaos, aiming to provide the lower class with information to manage family sizes and break free from poverty. The book kicks off by looking at poverty in society and blames social problems such as crime and sickness on too many people, suggesting that grasping how to control birth rates can help society. It uses the concepts of Thomas Robert Malthus and calls for birth control, then studies how population grows naturally to show techniques for managing family size, pushing the idea that this knowledge is key to a healthy society.