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Malthus and the Population Controversy 1803-1830

  • Published: 1994
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415105033
  • Set ISBN: 9780415105033

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A Reply to the ‘Essay on Population’ by the Rev. T. R. Malthus In a series of Letters

‘Mr Malthus has “admirably reconciled the old quarrel between speculation and practice”, by shewing (I suppose in humble imitation of Mandeville) that our duty and our vices both lean the same way, and that the ends of public virtue and benevolence are best answered by the meanness, pride, extravagance, and insensibility of individuals. This is certainly a very convenient doctrine; and it is not to be wondered at, that it should have become so fashionable as it has.’

William Hazlitt

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Chuhei Sugiyama; Andrew Pyle
  • A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.: In A Series Of Letters. To Which Are Added, Extracts From The Essay; With Notes.
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      Prelims
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      I
      Introductory.
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      II
      On the Originality of Mr. Malthus’s Principal Argument.
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      III
      On the Principle of Population as Affecting the Schemes of Utopian Improvement.
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      IV
      On The General Tendency of Population to Excess.
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      V
      Whether Vice and Misery are the Necessary Consequences of, and the Only Checks to, the Principle of Population.
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      Extracts from the Essay on Population.: With a Commentary, and Notes.