Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[440]. Malthus, Evidence before Emigration Committee, 1827; 3rd Report, qu. 3430, p. 327.

[441]. Querist (1735) 134: “Whether if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this kingdom, our natives might not nevertheless live cleanly and comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it?” The “caged rats” of the Corn Law pamphlets give us the other side of the question.

[442]. “Of such consequence in the encouragement of any industry is a steady unvarying policy.”——Arthur Young, France, p. 388.

[443]. See above, p. 151, &c.

[444]. See above, pp. 191–2.

[445]. l. c. p. 399. Cf. Lecky, Eighteenth Cent., vol. ii. pp. 222 seq.; Review of Newenham, pp. 349, 350.

[446]. See above, p. 18.

[447]. 7th ed., p. 378 ft. Cf. Polit. Econ., 1st ed., pp. 252, 290, and 394 seq.

[448]. Essay, III. viii. 323 (first in 5th ed.). See later, p. 268, &c.

[449]. Essay, 7th ed., pp. 452–3; 2nd ed., pp. 575–6.