[749]. Essay, III. ii. 279, explains in this way the popular prejudice which, in one case at least, visits the same sin more severely in a woman than in a man.
[750]. Essay, 7th ed., IV. x. 442.
[751]. Ibid., IV. ii. 401. Cf. Paley, Moral Philos., Vol. I. Book II. ch. iv. p. 65, there quoted, and Tucker, L. of N. (1st ed.), vol. ii ch. xxix., especially §§ 5–7 and 12.
[752]. Essay, 7th ed., IV. x. 443, 444 ft.
[753]. Ibid., IV. viii. 432, 433, compared with p. 492.
[754]. Essay, 7th ed., App. pp. 492–3. Cf. 7th ed., p. 280: “Self-love is the mainspring of the great machine.”
[755]. III. vii. 311.
[756]. Edin. Rev., 1810 (Aug.), an article on Ingram’s Disquisitions on Population, and [Hazlitt’s] Letters in Reply to Malthus. As the relations of Malthus to the Review were close at this time, and as the arguments and the style are remarkably like our author’s, there is at least a strong probability that he wrote the article, Jeffrey after his custom providing it with a head and tail to disguise the authorship. Cf. Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, Vol. I. 301, 302, cf. 285.
[757]. Cf. Wealth of Nations, I. x. 48, 49.
[758]. Edin. Rev., 1810 (Aug.), p. 475.