An Essay on the Principle of Population, vol. 2 [1826, 6th ed.]
Vol. 2 of the 6th expanded edition of the work. There are two versions of Thomas Robert Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population. The first, published anonymously in 1798, was so successful that Malthus soon elaborated on it under his real name. The rewrite, culminating in the sixth edition of 1826, was a scholarly expansion and generalization of the first. In this work Malthus argues that there is a disparity between the rate of growth of population (which increases geometrically) and the rate of growth of agriculture (which increases only arithmetically). He then explores how populations have historically been kept in check.
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 (London: John Murray 1826). 6th ed.
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Table of Contents
- Book III: OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OR EXPEDIENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN PROPOSED OR HAVE PREVAILED IN SOCIETY, AS THEY AFFECT THE EVILS ARISING FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION
- Book III, Chapter I: Of Systems of Equality. Wallace, Condorcet.
- Book III, Chapter II: Of Systems of Equality. Godwin.
- Book III, Chapter III: Of Systems of Equality (continued).
- Book III, Chapter IV: Of Emigration.
- Book III, Chapter V: Of Poor Laws.
- Book III, Chapter VI: Of Poor Laws, continued.
- Book III, Chapter VII: Of Poor Laws, continued.
- Book III, Chapter VIII: Of the Agricultural System.
- Book III, Chapter IX: Of the Commercial System.
- Book III, Chapter X: Of Systems of Agriculture and Commerce combined.
- Book III, Chapter XI: Of Corn-Laws. Bounties upon Exportation.
- Book III, Chapter XII: Of Corn-Laws. Restrictions upon Importation.
- Book III, Chapter XIII: Of increasing Wealth, as it affects the Condition of the Poor.
- Book III, Chapter XIV: General Observations.
- Book IV: OF OUR FUTURE PROSPECTS RESPECTING THE REMOVAL OR MITIGATION OF THE EVILS ARISING FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION.
- Book IV, Chapter I: Of moral Restraint, and our Obligation to practise this Virtue.
- Book IV, Chapter II: Of the Effects which would result to Society from the Prevalence of moral Restraint.
- Book IV, Chapter III: Of the only effectual Mode of improving the Condition of the Poor.
- Book IV, Chapter IV: Objections to this Mode considered.
- Book IV, Chapter V: Of the Consequences of pursuing the opposite Mode.
- Book IV, Chapter VI: Effects of the Knowledge of the principal Cause of Poverty on Civil Liberty.
- Book IV, Chapter VII: Continuation of the same Subject.24
- Book IV, Chapter VIII: Plan of the gradual Abolition of the Poor Laws proposed.
- Book IV, Chapter IX: Of the Modes of correcting the prevailing Opinions on Population.
- Book IV, Chapter X: Of the Direction of our Charity.
- Book IV, Chapter XI: Different Plans of improving the Condition of the Poor considered.
- Book IV, Chapter XII: Continuation of the same Subject.50
- Book IV, Chapter XIII: Of the Necessity of general Principles on this Subject.
- Book IV, Chapter XIV: Of our rational Expectations respecting the future Improvement of Society.
- Appendix I,: 1807
- Appendix II,: 1817
- Appendix III,: 1825