[889]. 7th ed., I. ii. 12 n.; 2nd ed., p. 16.
[890]. Tour in Southern Counties of England, 1767, p. 342.
[891]. Between 1767 and 1820. Cf. above (England).
[892]. Travels in France, pp. 408–9 (ed. 1792) and al.
[893]. Essay on Pop., 7th ed., pp. 449, 451 seq.; Annals of Agriculture, no. 239, pp. 219 seq. (quoted in Essay, App. pp. 496–7). Young had reproached Malthus for denying the right to relief.
[894]. Travels in France, ed. 1792, pp. 438–9.
[895]. App. to Essay, pp. 499, 500. It is not true that “Owen was right as against Malthus when he regarded a certain amount of comfort as the indispensable condition of a moral life, and thought that a considerable increase of man’s powers of production was possible” (Held, Soc. Gesch. Englands, pp. 351–2). Malthus himself did both.
[896]. The Plan is quoted by Cobbett, Pol. Reg., Dec. 14, 1816. Malthus (Pol. Ec. (1820), pp. 434, 435, (1836) p. 378) thinks that “co-proprietorship” of Government with the landlords, after the scheme of the Economists and on the analogy of Oriental “sole proprietorship,” might become too ready an engine of taxation for a military despotism.
[897]. See above, pp. 87, 112, &c.
[898]. Essay, 7th ed., p. 284.