[899]. E. g. by Bagehot, Econ. Stud. (1880), pp. 135 seq., and by Southey in Aikin’s Annual Review above quoted.
[900]. III. iii. 286. This and the rest of his argument (even its application to Civil Liberty) is to be found in Aristotle, Politics, ii. 3 and 4, but esp. 5. δεὶ δὲ μηδὲ τοῦτο λανθάνειν, &c.
[901]. Essay on Pop., 7th ed., p. 282.
[902]. See above, p. 24.
[903]. Genesis of Species, 2nd ed., 1871, p. 5.
[904]. The puzzling effect of counting up one’s great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers up to the twentieth degree or so is described by Blackstone as quoted by Godwin (Popn.) and re-quoted by Hazlitt (Spirit of the Age, 1825, p. 273, ‘Godwin’). The puzzle is less if we remember that our remote ancestors must have married into each other’s families, or rather were scions in the end of the same families. We cannot go back to a single pair except through the “prohibited degrees.”
[905]. We are to understand, therefore, that Malthus and the author agree that population needs a check, and are simply not agreed what the checks are to be.
[906]. See below, p. 392.
[907]. See above, p. 370. The sixteen positions not touched in their own place will be met by a reference to the following places in this book: i. to p. 20, add Essay, 2nd ed. Bk. III. ch. iii. p. 383, ii. to p. 37, iii. to p. 338, iv. to pp. 51, 78, v. to p. 80, vi. to p. 83, viii. to p. 113, ix. to p. 376, x. to p. 67, xi. to pp. 231, 297, see Essay, 7th ed. p. 381, xii. to pp. 70, 75, 91, xiii. to p. 393, xiv. to pp. 91, 270, xv. to p. 294, xvi. to p. 69, and xvii. to p. 75.
[908]. Das Kapital, 7ter Abschn. 23tes Kap. pp. 653 seq. (ed. 1872); cf. 646 seq.