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On the System ofMalihits.
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On the System ofMalthns . 471
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should licence such a book , full of scurrility ; whereupon the said Mr . Altham was forced to make a submission or recantation . " A . O . 2 nd ed . ii . 1 OOO . According to Wood , two answers to the Vindication
immediately appeared : " 1 . Animadversion on Mr . Hill's Book , entitled , &c . in a Letter to a Person of Quality . " 4 to . *« £ . Remarks of a University Man upon a late Book falsely called A Vindication of the Fathers . " 4 to . A . O . 2 nd ed . ii . 1000 . VERMICULUS .
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the souls of all their brethren from this place of punishment ; and probably a fast , or at least a day of abstinence , might have been instituted
on the occasion : but as this is only conjecture , I shall be glad to see a developement by any of your able Correspondents . * ANTI - IMPOSITION .
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Sir , / SEVERAL allusions have been recently made in your Repository to the system of population which Mr . Malthus has laboured to develope and enforce . Some of these have served more strongly to convince me of the fallacy and the unhappy
tendencies of that celebrated scheme . It is , I fear , calculated to exert no genial influence on the character of the present age . It sends a chillness into our " heart of hearts . " It represses the
involuntary risings of our kindest and most charitable emotions . It defends the extravagant luxuries of the rich , while it represents as criminal the most sacred affections of the poor . It gives a ready apology to the selfish , and covers the unfeeling bosom with the additional steel of a philosophic armour .
But I am well aware that to express repugnance to a theory as a matter of feeling or taste is not to disprove it . To some , indeed , it may seem a sufficient objection to the new
m ^ doctrine of population , that it contradicts the first of the Almighty ' s blessings . There is , however , uo necessity to stop here . 1 trust I shall be able to shew not only that the inferences derived from it are absurd .
but that the premises on which it rests are unfounded . Mr . Malthus and his disciples maintain , that the vast majority of human miseries arises from the increase of population being much more rapid than that of food \ that while the former has a tendency to multiply in geometrical , the latter can only be
augmented in an arithmetical progression ; and that either the natural progress of the species must be checked , or war , disease and famine must remove those who are intruders at tlie banquet of life , and have no place allotted to them at nature ' s table .
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Sir , July 21 , 1817 . IN your Repository for April , [ p . 2 O 9 , ] your Correspondent Otiosus mentions a publication of 1745 , in which the author asserts that at that time it was usual for the poor to go from one village to another begging sou I cakes , and asks if any of your readers have witnessed this . His
question I answer in the affirmative , and that the custom prevailed in that part of England of which I am a native ( Staffordshire ) > about thirty-seven years ago , but I never knew any other than children go on this errand . Once on the occasion the little supplicants treated me with one of their cakes , which were made of oatmeal and
water , in the way in which crumpets are made , and was the kind of wholesome bread chiefly eaten on those days in that part . Mentioning this to a female friend , she told me it was practised there as recently as fourteen or fifteen years ago , and by adults as
well as children , and that they were not restricted to the little cakes , but received fruit or any thing that the good folks were pleased to give them . The supplicative song I have heard them make use of was merrily run over , and is as follows :
Pray you , good dame , a soulcake , a soulcake , An apple , a pear , a plum , or a cherry , Or any gfood thing- to make us merry : One for Peter and two for Paul , And three for Him that made us all .
Whatever gave rise to the custom I know not , but I understand that the Roman Catholics did , on certain days , invpke their saints on behalf of some of their friends in purgatory , and I suppose QJ * this day ( Au-SouVsJ they besought them for the restoration of
On The System Ofmalihits.
On the System ofMalihits .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/23/
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