Note 878 — BOOK IV. THE CRITICS.
Reading edition
“The prolificness of human things, otherwise similarly circumstanced, varies inversely as their numbers.”—Sadler, Popn., vol. iii. p. 352 (1830). Reviewed somewhat caustically by Macaulay in Edin. Rev., July 1830. See Trevelyan’s Life of Macaulay, vol. i. p. 126. Cf. Sadler’s ‘Reply’ to Edin. Rev. His weakest point was his use of “inversely.”