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>Could someone remind me of who first used, and where, the phrase the 
"dismal science".  Was it Thomas Carlyle?  Where? 
>Steve Cullenberg> 
 
 
Heilbroner, Robert L.,1986.  The Worldly Philosophers, 6th Edition.  NY: 
Simon & Schuster, p.78.  Heilbroner confirms Carlyle used the term but does 
note cite date or work.  He does suggest that Carlyle used them term on 
reading Malthus.  So was the science dismal or Malthus's theory on 
population? 
 
Scott Cullen 
 
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