Additions to the fourth and former editions of An essay on the principle of population, &c. &c / by T. R. Malthus.

  • Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Additions to the fourth and former editions of An essay on the principle of population, &c. &c / by T. R. Malthus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    allowed, it does not clearly follow that the population was incorrectly estimated before the revolution, and that it has been dimi- nished rather than increased since 1792? To this question I should distinctly ansAver, that it does not follow. It has been seen, in many of the preceding chapters, that the proportions of births, deaths, and marriages, are extremely different in diiferent coun- tries, and there is the strongest reason for believing that they are very different in the same country at different periods, and under different circumstances. That changes of this kind have taken place in Switzerland has appeared to be al- most certain. A similar effect from in- creased healthiness in our own country may be considered as an established fact. And if we give any credit to the best authorities that can be collected on the subject, it can scarcely be doubted that the rate of morta- IX., and a law substituted which threw great obstacles in the way of marriage, according to Peuchet (p. 234). These two laws will assist in accounting for a small pro- portion of births and marriages in the ten years previous to 1813, consistently with the possibility of a large pro- portion in the first six or seven years after the commence- ment of the revolution. hty