Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[679]. See below, Bk. III., for disproof of the charge that he was reactionary in his politics, like many economical optimists.

[680]. Pol. Econ., 1820, p. 236.

[681]. l. c. p. 472.

[682]. Emigr. Comm. (1827), p. 317, qu. 3281.

[683]. 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.

[684]. Pol. Econ. (1820), ch. vii. sect. ix. p. 473. Cf. Tract on Rent, p. 48 n.

[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.”

[686]. Pol. Econ., l. c. p. 474.

[687]. Ibid., l. c. pp. 474–5.

[688]. See above, pp. 245 seq. and 252.