Volume 1

An essay on the principle of population, or, A view of its past and present effects on human happiness : with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions / by T.R. Malthus.

  • Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Date:
1807
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Credit: An essay on the principle of population, or, A view of its past and present effects on human happiness : with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions / by T.R. Malthus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    duty Of aflifting the poor through temporary fea- fons of diltrefs; and in the feventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth chapters of the fame book, fome paffages have been omitted and others added, particularly in the tenth, which treats of bounties on the expor- tation of corn, on account of the prefent import- ance of the fubject, and the difcuflion which it has lately received. In the fixth chapter of the fourth book, one paf- fage has been omitted, and a pafTage has been ad- ded on the effect of good government in diminifli- ing poverty. In the feventh chapter of the fame book a paf- fage has been omitted ; and in the eighth chapter a paflage of fome length, relating to a comparifon of the married and unmarried, has been omitted, and an obfervation added on the propriety of not un- derrating the defirablenefs of marriage, while we are inculcating the duties of moral reftraint. Thefe are the moft prominent alterations. The reft confifl: merely of a few verbal corrections, and here and there a fhort paflage or explanatory note, to prevent mifconceptions. Thefe minor correc- tions occur principally in the two flrft chapters. The reader will fee that the alterations here men- tioned do not affect the principles of the work, and therefore do not effentially leffen the value of the quarto edition. In an appendix, an anfwer is given to the princi- pal objections which have been urged againft the Effay;