Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834; Malthusianism
Namely, in the _Monthly Magazine_ for Jan. 1800. But see below, Book
V.
Footnote 8:
_Thoughts on Parr’s Sermon_, p. 2, and _Pol. Justice_, Pref. p. x.
Footnote 9:
Preface to first edition of Essay, 1798.
Footnote 10:
Leyden, 1767, translated under the title _Philosophical Survey of the
Animal Creation_, Lond., 1768. See especially chs. vii. and x.
Footnote 11:
_Common Sense_, p. 1, quoted in _Pol. Justice_, Bk. II. ch. i. p. 124
(3rd ed.).
Footnote 12:
_Pol. Justice_, Bk. VIII. ch. vi. p. 484. On the other hand, Franklin,
in his _Letter on Luxury, Idleness, and Industry_ (1784), had
estimated the necessary labour more moderately at four hours. Sir
Thos. More suggested nine. Owen recurred to the half-hour. _New Moral
World_, 1836, pp. x, xi.
Footnote 13:
_Essay_, 1st ed., pp. 161–2, footnote.
Footnote 14:
_Records of the Creation_, vol. i. p. 54, note.
Footnote 15:
Life by Kegan Paul, vol. i. p. 80. Cf. a curious passage in the
_Edinburgh Review_, about Godwin’s _Population_: “As the book was
dear, and not likely to fall into the hands of the labouring classes,
we had no thoughts of noticing it,” July 1821, p. 363.
Footnote 16:
_Enquirer_ (1797), Pref., p. 7.
Footnote 17:
Part II., Essay II.
Footnote 18:
Part II., Essays I. and III.
Footnote 19:
_Political Justice_, Book VIII. ch. ix. pp. 515–19 (3rd ed.).
Footnote 20:
Cf. Rich. Jones, _Pol. Econ._ (1859), p. 596.
Footnote 21:
Quoted, _Political Justice_, Book VIII. ch. viii. pp. 503, 520, on the
authority of Price.
Footnote 22:
_l. c._, Book VIII. ch. ix. p. 528.
Footnote 23:
_Essay_, 1st ed., p. 14.
Footnote 24:
1st ed., pp. 20, 173, &c., 7th ed., Book III. ch. ii.
Footnote 25:
1st ed., p. 128; cf. p. 210.
Footnote 26:
_Ibid._ p. 211.
Footnote 27:
_Ibid._ p. 215.
Footnote 28:
_Ibid._ p. 215.
Footnote 29:
1st ed., p. 17; cf. pp. 47–8.
Footnote 30:
Even Comte, who reproves economists for saying that difficulties right
themselves in the “long run,” thinks that this particular difficulty
will only occur _there_. (_Pos. Phil._, ii. 128 (tr.); cf. p. 54.)
Footnote 31:
1st ed., pp. 15, 16.
Footnote 32:
_Ibid._ pp. 19, 62–66.
Footnote 33:
_Pol. Just._, VIII. iii 466.
Footnote 34:
_Essay_, 1st ed., pp. 175–6, 193; 7th ed., pp. 272, 277. Cf. Gibbon,
ch. L., quoted in _Essay_, 2nd ed., p. 94; 7th ed., p. 65: “The
measure of population is regulated by the means of subsistence.”
Footnote 35:
_Pol. Just._, Book VIII. ch. ix. p. 520 n. (3rd ed.).
Footnote 36:
_Essay_, 1st ed., pp. 240–1.
Footnote 37:
Due to Coleridge. See Godwin’s _Life_, i. 357.
Footnote 38:
_Ibid._ i. 25.
Footnote 39:
_Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain_ (3rd
ed., 1797), pp. 384 _seq._
Footnote 40:
_Political Justice_, VIII. ix. 520 n.
Footnote 41:
_Essay_, 1st ed., p. 227.
Footnote 42:
_Esquisse_, pp. 362 _seq._
Footnote 43:
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