[243-5] Gray, The Happiness of States, or an Inquiry concerning Population, 1875. Weyland, Principles of Population and Production, 1816, had already ascribed to industry in itself a tendency to make the increase of Population less rapid!
[243-6] Compare Rossi, Cours d'Economie politique, I, 303 ff.
[243-7] Malthus, Principle of Population, V, ch. 3. Thus J. B. Say asks those population-mystics: if in thickly populated countries the power of procreation diminishes of itself, how comes it that even here the extraordinary[TN 76] voids made by pestilence, etc. are so rapidly filled up?
[243-8] Godwin, Inquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, III, 1821; III, ch. IV. Compare the same socialistic writer's essay: Inquiry concerning public Justice (II, 1793), which in part provoked Malthus' book. David Booth (in Godwin's first book) had the misfortune to ridicule Malthus by comparing his law with the law of gravitation, which he said did not freely operate in nature and was undemonstrable in space void of air! From a better point of view, Bastiat says of Malthus' traducers, that they might as well blame Newton when they were injured by a fall.
[243-9] Principle of Population, III, ch. 13. His moral severity in other respects is apparent especially in IV, ch. 13, towards the end.
[243-10] Every good family takes care of their children even before their birth. How far from practical is the view that the means of subsistence come as a matter of course, provided only that men are here before them!
CHAPTER II.
HISTORY OF POPULATION.
HISTORY OF POPULATION.—UNCIVILIZED TIMES.