[120]. Letter to Senior, Appendix to Senior’s Lectures on Population, pp. 60–72.
[121]. Essay, 2nd ed., p. 5.
[122]. He might have been warned from such by “οὐ γεωμετρικαῖς ἀλλ’ ἐρωτικαῖς ἀνάγκαις” (Plato, Republic, v. 458). But Bacon had applied the same figure still more widely: “Custom goes in arithmetical, Nature in geometrical progression” (Advancement of L., VI. iii. 259).
[123]. Cf. what is said of the cosmology of Malthus above, pp. 34 seq.
[124]. Or, keeping in view Mr. Carey’s exception, we should say not perhaps the first crop, but the earliest in which the farmer did justice to the known resources of the best land.
[125]. Political Arithmetic—Essay on the Multiplication of Mankind, 1682, pp. 7, 13 seq., especially p. 21 (ed. 1755).
[126]. Sir James Caird, Landed Interest, 4th ed., 1880, p. 177.
[127]. But see below, Bk. II. ch. i.
[128]. 2nd ed., I. i. p. 8; 7th ed., p. 6.
[129]. Essay, IV. iii., 7th ed., p. 407.