Match the thinkers with their ideas. Predicted that population growth would far exceed the food supply stressed the idea that a
free market needs to function without government interference proposed a society where workers are treated fairly and children are taught to read and write stated that the "invisible hand" of the market would benefit both producers and consumers focused on providing education to children instead of letting them work in factories suggested that if poor families had fewer children, the food supply would meet the needs of the population.
Answer: in 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus famously predicted that short-term gains in living standards would inevitably be undermined as human population growth outstripped food production, and thereby drive living standards back toward subsistence
Worsworth wrote this poem in the Romantic period. And it was written in light of his views that people are so invested in spending and earning, that they have altogether forgotten to appreciate the beauties of nature before them.
