[999]. Otter’s son-in-law. “Hal” in his childhood was asked what he would have done if, like the Good Samaritan, he had found a man half dead by the roadside; he answered (on the analogy of flies), “I should have killed him outright.” Contrast the child’s answer with his father’s remarks on the same parable in Essay, IV. xi. 447.
[1000]. Clergy List, 1881.
[1001]. Moore’s Memoirs, Journals, &c. (ed. Russell, 1853), vol. iii. p. 148, date Sept. 1820. Moore himself speaks of meeting Malthus and his wife when he was on a visit to Mackintosh at Haileybury in May 1819. Ibid., ii. 315.
[1002]. Volksvermehrung, p. 9. Kautsky sometimes trips, but he is more accurate than most of Malthus’ foreign biographers. Chas. Comte (in his Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. T. R. Malthus, read to Acad. of Mor. and Pol. Sciences, 28th Dec., 1836) converts Haileybury into Aylesbury (p. 31).
[1003]. Pol. Econ. (1836), p. 380 n. Sydney Smith wrote to Grey about him without success, in 1831 (Holland’s Life of Sydney Smith, vol, ii. p. 328).
[1004]. Richard, the brother of Wellington. See his Minute of 18th August, 1800, quoted by Malthus in his Statements.
[1005]. E. India Register and Directory (Hatchard), year 1807, pp. xxiv. seq. “Preliminary view of the establishment of the E. India College.” These two branches of the Haileybury programme correspond in their subjects to the Competitive and the Further examinations of candidates for the Civil Service of India as at present conducted. Malthus claims the credit of making the test in Oriental languages a necessary condition of final appointment (Statements, p. 100).
[1006]. Accordingly Malthus gets many of his illustrations from India, e. g. Pol. Ec. (2nd ed.), pp. 154–5.
[1007]. India Register, l. c. p. xxv.
[1008]. There must be some on the Pension List who still remember him.