No, that isn't the same at all. One is about ideas evolving through new generations of thought not held back by the old, the other is about there being overpopu

No, that isn't the same at all. One is about ideas evolving through new generations of thought not held back by the old, the other is about there being overpopulation. Imagine if we still had people still alive from the Civil War...advancement would have likely been less (many old ideas, people stuck in their ways would have thwarted human progress.) What does that have to be with there being too many humans on earth? I don't see how you can even say these are the same argument, if you had actually copied the FULL quote, it would have been very apparent.