THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOLUME FOUR _All rights reserved_ [Illustration: _William Hazlitt._ _From a miniature on ivory Executed by John Hazlitt about 1784_ ] THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT EDITED BY A. R. WALLER AND ARNOLD GLOVER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. E. HENLEY ❦ A Reply to Malthus The Spirit of the Age Etc. ❦ 1902 LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.: NEW YORK Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, (late) Printers to Her Majesty CONTENTS PAGE A REPLY TO MALTHUS’S ESSAY ON POPULATION 1 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE 185 PREFACE, ETC., FROM AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE LIGHT OF NATURE PURSUED 369 PREFACE FROM A NEW AND IMPROVED GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE 387 NOTES 397 A REPLY TO THE ESSAY ON POPULATION BY THE REV. T. R. MALTHUS IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, EXTRACTS FROM THE ESSAY, WITH NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Published anonymously in one 8vo vol. of 378 pages (1807) with the following title-page: ‘A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a Series of Letters. To which are added, Extracts from the Essay; with notes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row. 1807.’ The volume was printed by Arliss and Huntsman, 32 Gutter Lane, Cheapside. ADVERTISEMENT