Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834; Malthusianism
All that is certainly known of the bulk of his contributions to the
_Edin. Review_ is that, like those of James Mill and Mackintosh, they
do not occur before the twentieth number of it (in July 1807). See
Bain, _Life of James Mill_, p. 75 n. Horner mentions (_Memoirs_, Vol.
I. p. 437) the article on Newenham’s _Population of Ireland_, 1808,
and another (of which he had seen the MS.) Feb. 1811 (Vol. II. p. 68).
But see above, p. 285, note.
Footnote 998:
The apocryphal story of his eleven daughters is given and exposed by
Garnier, _Dict. de l’Éc. Pol._, art. ‘Malthus.’
Footnote 999:
Otter’s son-in-law. “Hal” in his childhood was asked what he would
have done if, like the Good Samaritan, he had found a man half dead by
the roadside; he answered (on the analogy of flies), “I should have
killed him outright.” Contrast the child’s answer with his father’s
remarks on the same parable in _Essay_, IV. xi. 447.
Footnote 1000:
Clergy List, 1881.
Footnote 1001:
Moore’s _Memoirs_, _Journals_, &c. (ed. Russell, 1853), vol. iii. p.
148, date Sept. 1820. Moore himself speaks of meeting Malthus and his
wife when he was on a visit to Mackintosh at Haileybury in May 1819.
_Ibid._, ii. 315.
Footnote 1002:
_Volksvermehrung_, p. 9. Kautsky sometimes trips, but he is more
accurate than most of Malthus’ foreign biographers. Chas. Comte (in
his _Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. T. R. Malthus_,
read to Acad. of Mor. and Pol. Sciences, 28th Dec., 1836) converts
Haileybury into _Aylesbury_ (p. 31).
Footnote 1003:
_Pol. Econ._ (1836), p. 380 n. Sydney Smith wrote to Grey about him
without success, in 1831 (Holland’s _Life of Sydney Smith_, vol, ii.
p. 328).
Footnote 1004:
Richard, the brother of Wellington. See his Minute of 18th August,
1800, quoted by Malthus in his _Statements_.
Footnote 1005:
_E. India Register and Directory_ (Hatchard), year 1807, pp. xxiv.
_seq._ “Preliminary view of the establishment of the E. India
College.” These two branches of the Haileybury programme correspond in
their subjects to the Competitive and the Further examinations of
candidates for the Civil Service of India as at present conducted.
Malthus claims the credit of making the test in Oriental languages a
necessary condition of final appointment (_Statements_, p. 100).
Footnote 1006:
Accordingly Malthus gets many of his illustrations from India, e. g.
_Pol. Ec._ (2nd ed.), pp. 154–5.
Footnote 1007:
_India Register_, _l. c._ p. xxv.
Footnote 1008:
There must be some on the Pension List who still remember him.
Footnote 1009:
From the first there was a school, affiliated with the college though
not confined to its future pupils. The present school is of later
origin.
Footnote 1010:
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