Footnote 892: _Travels in France_, pp. 408–9 (ed. 1792) and al. Footnote 893: _Essay on Pop._, 7th ed., pp. 449, 451 _seq._; _Annals of Agriculture_, no. 239, pp. 219 _seq._ (quoted in _Essay_, App. pp. 496–7). Young had reproached Malthus for denying the right to relief. Footnote 894: _Travels in France_, ed. 1792, pp. 438–9. Footnote 895: App. to _Essay_, pp. 499, 500. It is not true that “Owen was right _as against Malthus_ when he regarded a certain amount of comfort as the indispensable condition of a moral life, and thought that a considerable increase of man’s powers of production was possible” (Held, _Soc. Gesch. Englands_, pp. 351–2). Malthus himself did both. Footnote 896: The _Plan_ is quoted by Cobbett, _Pol. Reg._, Dec. 14, 1816. Malthus (_Pol. Ec._ (1820), pp. 434, 435, (1836) p. 378) thinks that “co-proprietorship” of Government with the landlords, after the scheme of the Economists and on the analogy of Oriental “sole proprietorship,” might become too ready an engine of taxation for a military despotism. Footnote 897: See above, pp. 87, 112, &c. Footnote 898: _Essay_, 7th ed., p. 284. Footnote 899: _E. g._ by Bagehot, _Econ. Stud._ (1880), pp. 135 _seq._, and by Southey in Aikin’s _Annual Review_ above quoted. Footnote 900: III. iii. 286. This and the rest of his argument (even its application to Civil Liberty) is to be found in Aristotle, _Politics_, ii. 3 and 4, but esp. 5. δεὶ δὲ μηδὲ τοῦτο λανθάνειν, &c. Footnote 901: _Essay on Pop._, 7th ed., p. 282. Footnote 902: See above, p. 24. Footnote 903: _Genesis of Species_, 2nd ed., 1871, p. 5. Footnote 904: The puzzling effect of counting up one’s great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers up to the twentieth degree or so is described by Blackstone as quoted by Godwin (_Popn._) and re-quoted by Hazlitt (_Spirit of the Age_, 1825, p. 273, ‘Godwin’). The puzzle is less if we remember that our remote ancestors must have married into each other’s families, or rather were scions in the end of the same families. We cannot go back to a single pair except through the “prohibited degrees.” Footnote 905: We are to understand, therefore, that Malthus and the author agree _that_ population needs a check, and are simply not agreed _what_ the checks are to be. Footnote 906: See below, p. 392. Footnote 907: See above, p. 370. The sixteen positions not touched in their own place will be met by a reference to the following places in this book: i. to p. 20, add _Essay_, 2nd ed. Bk. III. ch. iii. p. 383, ii. to p. 37, iii. to p. 338, iv. to pp. 51, 78, v. to p. 80, vi. to p. 83, viii. to p. 113, ix. to p. 376, x. to p. 67, xi. to pp. 231, 297, see _Essay_, 7th ed. p. 381, xii. to pp. 70, 75, 91, xiii. to p. 393, xiv. to pp. 91, 270, xv. to p. 294, xvi. to p. 69, and xvii. to p. 75. Footnote 908: