Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[959]. In 1780 or thereabouts.

[960]. Wakefield’s Life (1804), vol. i. p. 214. It is curious to remember that Marat is said to have been an usher at a Warrington School a short time before this.

[961]. Wakefield’s Life, i. p. 344.

[962]. Elected in 1776. See Life, i. p. 111 ft.

[963]. Otter, l. c. p. xxvii. ft.

[964]. Letter in App. II. to Wakefield, Life, ii. pp. 454–463. A comparison of this letter with Wakefield, Life, ii. p. 334, and Otter, l. c. p. xxiv. ft. (“by his own acknowledgment”), makes it almost certain that the letter is by Malthus.

[965]. E. g. with such very different men as Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, and Thomas Paine.

[966]. Though at college he took several prizes for Latin and Greek and English Declamations. We may hope that his defect of utterance had not become pronounced at that date, or that the declamations were not always declaimed.

[967]. Wakefield, Life, ii. p. 9.

[968]. Otter, l. c. p. xxv.