Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[50]. Cf. Essay, 7th ed., I. vii. p. 65; 1st ed., pp. 94, 95, &c.

[51]. Godwin, Pol. Just., VIII. viii. 508 (3rd ed.).

[52]. Preface to Essay, 2nd ed.

[53]. By implication. See below, Book I. ch. vii. p. 175.

[54]. Moral and Political Essays, Vol. I., Essay XI., Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations (ed. 1768), written in 1752.

[55]. So even Sir James Steuart, Vol. I. Pol. Econ., ch. iii. p. 22 (ed. 1805), might have helped him. Steuart wrote in 1767.

[56]. Essay, Book II. ch. vi.; 7th ed., p. 184.

[57]. Buckle would include Voltaire. See Civil. in Europe, ii. 304 n.

[58]. Wealth of Nations, I. viii. 36, 2 (MacCulloch’s ed.). These passages are said to have suggested to Malthus the idea of his essay. The article on Population in Edin. Review, Aug. 1810, possibly written by Malthus himself, bears out this view.

[59]. Compare Essay, Appendix (to 3rd ed., 1807), 7th ed., p. 507.