Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[240]. Except the hog, adds Gibbon, Decl. and F., ch. ix. p. 171 n.

[241]. See above, p. 48.

[242]. The phrase on p. 216 of 2nd ed. (p. 148 of 7th), “in the preceding summer of 1788,” is probably a slip. We do not hear elsewhere of any visit so early. See below, Bk. V.

[243]. See above, p. 49. Cf. 2nd ed., p. 281; 7th ed., p. 173, &c.

[244]. For his other movements and other details of his life, see Bk. V. (Biography).

[245]. 2nd and 7th edd., Bk. II. ch. i.

[246]. Essay, 2nd ed., p. 189; 7th ed., p. 129.

[247]. The Russian figures being incredible. See later, p. 133.

[248]. 2nd ed., p. 184; 7th ed., p. 126.

[249]. 2nd ed., pp. 188, 189; 7th ed., pp. 128, 129. Cf. Thornton’s chapter (II.) on the “Social Effects of Peasant Proprietorships,” Peas. Prop. (ed. 1874), p. 55.