Note 34 — Chapter I · FIRST THOUGHTS, 1798.
Reading edition
Essay, 1st ed., pp. 175–6, 193; 7th ed., pp. 272, 277. Cf. Gibbon, ch. L., quoted in Essay, 2nd ed., p. 94; 7th ed., p. 65: “The measure of population is regulated by the means of subsistence.”