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¦ fljid ***** fayewpt Jtatithmis not a * ow « which k $ s wg&mm& * 8 mn * m m » of * fc * »» i **» pf wpw ^ V »» < iiU- Are ft ^ t tf uch results as these practical ro tations of tb * ltfrftliuaian doctrines ? Do they hoi clearly sh $ w thkfe 6 wfr
popal&tioa & a relative term , and that the same CQimtrywh | ch h * # appeared tg be over-peopled while misgovern ^! , ; can 3 molt greatly increased numbe r * when its institutions aft owned ? It is easy to meet every difficulty with tfe * cry of *« fuwwpopulation , " and to answer the demand for reform with
the di « tttm , * reduce your numbers . " Bat in such examples as tkat whict Norway affords , will be found arsuraents that cannot be silenced by sophisms like these . They have forcibly reminded us of some of the home Questions put b y Hazlitt to the Malthusian philosopher ^ , in his f Political Essays / and the Malthusian philosophers , iq his f Political Essays / and
we are inclined to ask with him in his * Queries relating to the Principle of Population "—p , 439- — u Whether the whole of the reverend author ' s management of the principle of population , and of the necessity of moral restraint , does not * eem to have beea copied from the prudent Friar * s advice in Chaueer ?
u i 5 ew ? ure therefore with lprdes . fpr to play > Sipgeth Plq ^ bQ : —• To 4 poor man , men should his vices tell , But not to a lord , though lie should go to hell . ' "
$¥ * poe can elaim tbe merit , even of originality , for Mr Mal « th ^ s * Harf itt thowsd , without the possibility of contradiction , that his main principle of ' the superior power of increase in p ^ pulafcian , over the means of subsistence / was put forth by WalJace , a S < tf > tobrn ** n , in tbe year
1761—^ Both the principle of the necessary increase of the population bejttnd til * means of iub « istenee , and the application of that princi p le a * a fhial dbltoda to all Utopian perfectibility schemes , are borrowed ( whole ) by Mr Malthus from Wallace ' s work /— Haxlitf * PoUfaai JfyHMfK p . 4 W # The original portion of Mr Malthus's Essay consists in his famous « ratios / by which , according to his admirers , he has
reduced the question to a mathematical certainty ; showing , that while food increases in an arithmetical , population increases in * geometrical ratio ; so that , by a series or figures , he presents a wtost alarming picture to the eyes of his readers ^ Food , fOAording to hipi , goes on iqcfeasifig only as 1 , 3 , 8 , 4 , A , 6 i while population multi p lies as 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , 32 , { hit it is abptjt as difficult to find truth in his originality , as ori g inality m his truth . Hazlitt has dealt rather severely with the Mfcl ?
thu ^ ian math ejpfttics—^ Them ***** wr # » ia a sirifi and snientifia viam oi the subj ect , «* tirely fallacioua— -a pure fiction * For a grain of cwra a » 4 « f nRwtevd
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/10/
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