Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[759]. Paley, Mor. and Pol. Phil., I. vii. 9; cf. Malthus, Essay, IV. ii. 397, &c. Cf. above, p. 39.

[760]. Paley, ibid., I. iv. 14.

[761]. See above, p. 37. The passages there cited completely refute Held’s assertion that “Malthus appealed to Utility in the teeth of his belief in the Bible” (Sociale Geschichte Englands, Book I. ch. ii p. 234).

[762]. Mor. and Pol. Phil., vii. 10.

[763]. “Any condition may be denominated ‘happy’ in which the amount or aggregate of pleasure exceeds that of pain.”—Paley, M. and P. Ph., I. vi.

[764]. Essay, 7th ed., III. vi. 305.

[765]. See Mr. Sidgwick’s Method of Ethics, p. 385 ft.

[766]. Quoted from The Crisis, by Empson, Edin. Rev., Jan. 1837, p. 482.

[767]. Report of the Crofters Commission, 1884, p. 9.

[768]. Essay, IV. iii. 407.