[90]. Essay, 1st ed., p. 10.
[91]. Cf. St. Matth. xix. 12.
[92]. MS. notes on p. vii of S. T. Coleridge’s copy of the 2nd ed. of the Essay, in Brit. Museum (from the library of his executor, Dr. Joseph H. Green).
[93]. See Otter’s biographical preface to Malthus’ Pol. Ec. (1836), p. xxxvi, and Otter’s Life of Clarke (1825), i. 437, &c.
[94]. See below, Book II. chap. iv.
[95]. 2nd ed., Book IV. chap, xii.; 7th ed., p. 477.
[96]. 2nd ed., I. ii. 10, 11; cf. xiv. 180; 7th ed., pp. 8 note, 262, &c.
[97]. 2nd ed., p. 11.
[98]. 7th ed., p. 351; so I. ix. 82, “moral impossibility” of increase, in a case where there is plenty of food, but bad distribution makes it unattainable. The impossibility is due not to physical law but to human institutions (mores).
[99]. Malthus, Essay, 1st ed., p. 387.