[879]. Malthus, Essay, II. v. (7th ed.), pp. 164, 166; cf. p. 485.

[880]. G. P. Scrope, M.P., Pol. Econ., 1833, &c. Malthus, Essay, III. iii. (7th ed.), 282–6 (Owen), IV. xii. 457 (Owen), III. xiv. 380 n. (Anderson).

[881]. John Weyland, junr., F.R.S. The Principles of Population and Production as they are affected by the Progress of Society with a view to Moral and Political Consequences, 1816.

[882]. So Arnold Toynbee, Industrial Revolution, p. 107.

[883]. Ch. iii. p. 21. He adds, as his second: “This tendency can never be destroyed.”

[884]. Essay, Appendix, p. 517.

[885]. Propos. iii and iv.

[886]. Essay, l. c. p. 521, a very strong passage.

[887]. Append. p. 526.

[888]. Pop. and Prod., pp. 82 seq.