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 ... In two volumes.

  • Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Date:
1809
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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 ... In two volumes. 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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    mentioned do not affect the principles of the work, and therefore do not essentially lessen the value of the quarto edition. In an appendix, an answer is given to the prin- cipal objections w^hich have been urged against the Essay; and for the accommodation of the pur- chasers of the former edition it is printed in quarto, and may be had separately. Those who have not leisure or inclination to read the entire work, will find in the appendix such a notice of its most prominent arguments, as will give them a good ge- neral idea of the aim and bent of t;he whole. For the sake of making the volumes more equal, the printer has placed the Index to both at the end of the first. It was not at first foreseen that the Appendix and Index would be so long, or a prefer- able division of the volumes would have been adopted. a 4