Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[689]. See below, Bk. IV., and cf. above, p. 208.

[690]. See above, p. 142.

[691]. The passage is quoted in full because by recent critics it is much garbled; e. g. in Progress and Poverty, VII. i. 304 n.

[692]. Essay, 2nd ed., IV. vi. 531.

[693]. Lucretius, iii. 951. Cicero’s simile of the theatre open to all comers, but giving each man his own seat, had special application to Property (De Finibus, iii. 20).

[694]. Epitaph on Fenton.

[695]. James Grahame’s Population (1816), p. 34. Cf. Quarterly Rev., Dec. 1812, p. 327; Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age, ‘Malthus,’ end.

[696]. Book III. Part I. ch. iv. (1785).

[697]. E. g. Godwin, Population (1820), I. iii. 17. The withdrawal was probably due to Sumner. See Otter, Life of Malthus in Pol. Ec. (1836), p. lii.

[698]. Cf. Essay, 2nd ed., pp. 400, 401, and nn.; 7th ed., p. 298 n. Cf. pp. 295 and 297 n. Cf. also Tooke, above quoted, p. 291.