[30]. Even Comte, who reproves economists for saying that difficulties right themselves in the “long run,” thinks that this particular difficulty will only occur there. (Pos. Phil., ii. 128 (tr.); cf. p. 54.)
[31]. 1st ed., pp. 15, 16.
[32]. Ibid. pp. 19, 62–66.
[33]. Pol. Just., VIII. iii 466.
[34]. Essay, 1st ed., pp. 175–6, 193; 7th ed., pp. 272, 277. Cf. Gibbon, ch. L., quoted in Essay, 2nd ed., p. 94; 7th ed., p. 65: “The measure of population is regulated by the means of subsistence.”
[35]. Pol. Just., Book VIII. ch. ix. p. 520 n. (3rd ed.).
[36]. Essay, 1st ed., pp. 240–1.
[37]. Due to Coleridge. See Godwin’s Life, i. 357.
[38]. Ibid. i. 25.
[39]. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain (3rd ed., 1797), pp. 384 seq.