Note 719 — Chapter IV · THE BEGGAR.

Essay on Population, Appendix, p. 492. It was probably this disclaimer of public duty that led Coleridge to complain, “the entire tendency of the modern or Malthusian political economy is to denationalize” (Table Talk, p. 327). Cf. Toynbee, Industr. Revol., p. 24. But it may have been simply the idea that Malthus, like Ricardo, advocated laissez faire; and in this case it is singular he should not have said “Ricardian” instead of “Malthusian.”