[340]. See above, p. 155. Levasseur makes it twenty-five; Arthur Young, who considers France over-populated by five or six millions, makes it twenty-six (Travels in France, pp. 468–9; cf. p. 474). Price had made it thirty.
[341]. Grounds of an Opinion, &c., p. 12. See below, Bk. II. ch. i.
[342]. Census as given in Annuaire de l’Économie Politique (1882), p. 899.
[343]. Political Economy (1820), pp. 433 seq. Cliffe Leslie (Mor. and Pol. Essays, 1879, p. 424) attributes the few births to the very Law of Succession of which Malthus was afraid.
[344]. In the country districts at least. On the relation of luxury to trade, &c., see below, Bk. II. ch. iii. p. 268.
[345]. E. g. by M. Levasseur in La France avec ses Colonies (1875), p. 853.
[346]. Appendix to Wealth of Nations, note iv. p. 465.
[347]. Levasseur, l. c. pp. 845, 846 ft.
[348]. Times, Jan. 1883.
[349]. English Registrar-General’s 45th Report, for 1882, pp. cii, cvii.