[60]. Records of Creation, 1816.
[61]. 1st ed., p. 395.
[62]. Ibid. p. 353. This and much else were probably suggested by Tucker, Light of Nature, Theology, ch. xix. (especially § 20). Cf. below, Book III.
[63]. Essay, 1st ed., p. 381.
[64]. Ibid. p. 371.
[65]. Cf. Essay, 2nd ed., p. 65; later editions, I. vi. (beginning), where he says that sloth is the natural state of man, and his activity is due in the first instance to the “strong goad of necessity,” though it may be kept up afterwards by habit, the spirit of enterprise, and the thirst for glory.
[66]. 1st ed., pp. 360–366. For the replenishment of the gap made by the Great Plague of 1348, see Prof. Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages (1884), p. 226.
[67]. 1st ed., p. 391.
[68]. 1st ed., pp. 394–6; cf. pp. 241–6. Compare Mr. Henry George’s epilogue to Progress and Poverty. It is right to remember that this passage of Malthus was written two years before Paley’s Natural Theology, though four years after his Evidences of Christianity, and many more after the Moral and Political Philosophy.
[69]. R. of Cr., vol. ii. 103.