Footnote 714: _Essay_, 7th ed., III. vi. p. 307; _Emigration Committee_ (1827), qu. 3361, p. 323. Footnote 715: _l. c._ pp. 307–8. Cf. above, p. 134. Footnote 716: _Reports to Local Gov. Bd. on Foreign Poor Laws_, 1875, p. 7. Footnote 717: Macvey Napier’s _Correspondence_, pp. 29 _seq._ Date 30th Sept, 1821. Footnote 718: _Report of Poor Law Comm._, 1834; _Remedial Measures_, p. 227. Footnote 719: _Essay on Population_, Appendix, p. 492. It was probably this disclaimer of public duty that led Coleridge to complain, “the entire tendency of the modern or Malthusian political economy is to denationalize” (_Table Talk_, p. 327). Cf. Toynbee, _Industr. Revol._, p. 24. But it may have been simply the idea that Malthus, like Ricardo, advocated _laissez faire_; and in this case it is singular he should not have said “Ricardian” instead of “Malthusian.” Footnote 720: _Essay_, 2nd ed., IV. vii. p. 538; 7th ed., IV. viii. p. 530. Footnote 721: _Essay_, 2nd ed., p. 539. Footnote 722: E. g. _Report of Commissioners_, p. 13. Footnote 723: _Report_, pp. 227–8. Footnote 724: _Report_, p. 228. Footnote 725: Even if he were a poor ratepayer, voting a sum of which his richer neighbour would pay the larger share. Footnote 726: _Essay_, 2nd ed., p. 490; 7th ed., p. 394; cf. pp. 392 top and 396. Footnote 727: _Essay_, 7th ed., IV. x. pp. 442–3; cf. p. 161. Footnote 728: 7th ed., IV. i. p. 390. Cf. above, p. 37. Footnote 729: Not quite logical, if the test of a virtuous action is its tendency to produce happiness. Footnote 730: _Ibid._, IV. i. p. 390. Footnote 731: 2nd ed., pp. 489, 490, 501; 7th ed., pp. 390, 401. Cf. Paley, _M. and P. Phil._, I. vi., II. iv.; Tucker, _Light of Nature_ (1st ed., 1768), vol. ii. ch. xxix., esp. § 12. Footnote 732: _Essay_, 7th ed., IV. i. 391. Kant’s test of a moral law, so far as it was not purely dogmatic, was most easily illustrated, or he would have said parodied, by this Utilitarian argument. Footnote 733: _Essay_, 2nd ed., p. 487; 7th ed., p. 392. Footnote 734: _Ibid._, 2nd ed., p. 488; 7th ed., pp. 392–3; cf. p. 398. Footnote 735: _Ibid._, 1st ed. (1798), p. 211. Footnote 736: The passage in _A Tale of the Tyne_, which left no trace on Miss Martineau’s own memory, but so faithfully expounded Malthus that he called on purpose to thank her for it (_Autobiogr._, i. 253), is easily identified in the light of these extracts as ch. iii. p. 56 of ed. 1833. Footnote 737: 2nd ed., pp. 491–2; 7th ed., p. 395. See above, p. 36. Footnote 738: 2nd ed., p. 494; 7th ed., p. 397. Cf. above, p. 38. Footnote 739: The phrase in _Essay_, 7th ed., p. 401. Footnote 740: Not to be confused with his contemporary, Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, the forerunner of Adam Smith. Footnote 741: