The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus. Rereading the Principle of Population

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John Pullen

School of Business, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

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Notes

1 Patricia James noted (Malthus 1989, vol. 2, 232) that the date ‘(1807)’ appeared in the fifth (1817) edition and the sixth (1826) edition of the Essay, and was presumably an incorrect and absent-minded error by Malthus for ‘1806’.

2 ‘Mr. Malthus was not fond of storms, as the petrel is said to be, for their own sake. But it will be seen, on looking at the date and nature of his pamphlets that he usually turned out in one. At these times, the opportunity of being useful was excitement enough: and his spirits rose with the occasion’. (Empson 1837, 496).