[150]. 3rd ed., p. 21; 7th ed., p. 9.

[151]. 3rd ed. l. c.

[152]. 2nd ed., p. 13; 7th ed., p. 10. His own book has helped to make this less true.

[153]. 2nd ed., pp. 14, 15. With this description of the “cycle” compare the view of Marx as given below in Book IV.

[154]. Miss Martineau, Autob., vol. i. p. 210.

[155]. Reply to Malthus, p. 20. Cf. below, Book IV.

[156]. Pref. to 2nd ed., p. vi.

[157]. 2nd ed., Pref. p. vi. True even then, and much more afterwards.

[158]. Godwin, On Population, I. iv. 31, 32.

[159]. 2nd ed., p. 31; 7th ed., p. 23.