[719]. Essay on Population, Appendix, p. 492. It was probably this disclaimer of public duty that led Coleridge to complain, “the entire tendency of the modern or Malthusian political economy is to denationalize” (Table Talk, p. 327). Cf. Toynbee, Industr. Revol., p. 24. But it may have been simply the idea that Malthus, like Ricardo, advocated laissez faire; and in this case it is singular he should not have said “Ricardian” instead of “Malthusian.”
[720]. Essay, 2nd ed., IV. vii. p. 538; 7th ed., IV. viii. p. 530.
[721]. Essay, 2nd ed., p. 539.
[722]. E. g. Report of Commissioners, p. 13.
[723]. Report, pp. 227–8.
[724]. Report, p. 228.
[725]. Even if he were a poor ratepayer, voting a sum of which his richer neighbour would pay the larger share.
[726]. Essay, 2nd ed., p. 490; 7th ed., p. 394; cf. pp. 392 top and 396.
[727]. Essay, 7th ed., IV. x. pp. 442–3; cf. p. 161.
[728]. 7th ed., IV. i. p. 390. Cf. above, p. 37.