[1009]. From the first there was a school, affiliated with the college though not confined to its future pupils. The present school is of later origin.
[1010]. Statements, p. 103, &c. This idea of the proper preparation for a civilian’s career in India chimes in with Malthus’ idea of the first requisite of good citizenship at home and everywhere.
[1011]. A hare-lip. Miss Martineau, who describes it, adds that “his vowels at least were sonorous, whatever might become of the consonants.” But she understood him without her ear trumpet. Autobiogr., i. 327–8. Cf. above, p. 58. Sydney Smith says, “I would almost consent to speak as inarticulately if I could think and act as wisely.” Life by Holland, vol. ii. p. 326. He attributes a similar physical defect to Talleyrand, with perhaps as much seriousness. Life by Holland, vol. ii. pp. 256–7.
[1012]. Letter to Lord Grenville (1813), p. 14. Cf. what he says of the importance of teaching Political Economy in elementary schools, &c. Essay, IV. ix. 438 n.
[1013]. Jeffrey, Life, vol. ii. pp. 339, 340. To Mrs. C. Innes, 9th May, 1841.
[1014]. Autobiogr., i. 327. Other visits of Malthus to her are recorded, iii. 83, i. 253. For her view of him and his work see especially i. 200, 209, 253, 331.
[1015]. Ib. I. pp. 328–9.
[1016]. Cf. 1st Essay, pp. 225–6, which shows him on the Hunting-Field.
[1017]. A slip of the pen for “Professor.” The Principal was J. H. Batten, F.R.S.
[1018]. Where the fear expressed in some quarters (see Statements, p. 87) that the place would become a barrack has been realized architecturally.