Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834; Malthusianism
Some such view is suggested by Malthus himself, _Essay_, IV. xiii. p.
473 (cf. _Pol. Ec._, 1820, p. 475), a passage which it is hard to
reconcile with the passages in the _Quarterly_ and in the _Pol. Ec._
that speak of the necessity of a special class of unproductive
consumers.
Footnote 684:
_Pol. Econ._ (1820), ch. vii. sect. ix. p. 473. Cf. _Tract on Rent_,
p. 48 n.
Footnote 685:
_Essay on Pop._, III. iii. p. 282 (in relation to Robert Owen). Cf.
the whole ch. xiii. of Book III., where he treats of “Increasing
Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor.”
Footnote 686:
_Pol. Econ._, _l. c._ p. 474.
Footnote 687:
_Ibid._, _l. c._ pp. 474–5.
Footnote 688:
See above, pp. 245 _seq._ and 252.
Footnote 689:
See below, Bk. IV., and cf. above, p. 208.
Footnote 690:
See above, p. 142.
Footnote 691:
The passage is quoted in full because by recent critics it is much
garbled; _e. g._ in _Progress and Poverty_, VII. i. 304 n.
Footnote 692:
_Essay_, 2nd ed., IV. vi. 531.
Footnote 693:
Lucretius, iii. 951. Cicero’s simile of the theatre open to all
comers, but giving each man his own seat, had special application to
Property (_De Finibus_, iii. 20).
Footnote 694:
Epitaph on Fenton.
Footnote 695:
James Grahame’s _Population_ (1816), p. 34. Cf. _Quarterly Rev._, Dec.
1812, p. 327; Hazlitt, _Spirit of the Age_, ‘Malthus,’ end.
Footnote 696:
Book III. Part I. ch. iv. (1785).
Footnote 697:
_E. g._ Godwin, _Population_ (1820), I. iii. 17. The withdrawal was
probably due to Sumner. See Otter, Life of Malthus in _Pol. Ec._
(1836), p. lii.
Footnote 698:
Cf. _Essay_, 2nd ed., pp. 400, 401, and nn.; 7th ed., p. 298 n. Cf.
pp. 295 and 297 n. Cf. also Tooke, above quoted, p. 291.
Footnote 699:
Cf. above, p. 220.
Footnote 700:
On Bounties and the Corn Trade. Cf. _High Price of Provisions_, p. 3.
Footnote 701:
_l. c._ p. 23. See above, p. 289. Also _Corn Law Catechism_, 1839, qu.
244.
Footnote 702:
_l. c._ pp. 9–11. Cf. the “make up” and “bread money” mentioned in
_Report of Poor Law Commission_, 1834, p. 27.
Footnote 703:
_High Price_, &c. pp. 19, 20.
Footnote 704:
_l. c._ p. 27. Cf. above, p. 43.
Footnote 705:
1st ed., pp. 82, 83; 7th ed., pp. 302–3.
Footnote 706:
_Essay_, 7th ed., Appendix, p. 493.
Footnote 707:
He borrows, as he himself says, the language of Sir Frederick Eden on
the _State of the Poor_ (1797). See _Essay on Population_, 2nd ed., p.
417 n.; 7th ed., p. 308 n.
Footnote 708:
_Letter to Whitbread_ (1807), pp. 12, 13; cf. _Essay_, p. 445 ft.
Footnote 709:
Quoted, _Essay_, III. vi. 308 n.
Footnote 710:
7th ed., III. vi. 303; 1st ed., p. 365.
Footnote 711:
III. vi. (7th ed.), p. 305.
Footnote 712:
See e. g. _Emigration Committee_, 1827, qu. 3369, p. 323.
Footnote 713:
Dr. John Moore’s _View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland,
and Germany_ (7th ed., 1789), vol. ii. pp. 144–157.
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