Note 895 — BOOK IV. THE CRITICS.
Reading edition
App. to Essay, pp. 499, 500. It is not true that “Owen was right as against Malthus when he regarded a certain amount of comfort as the indispensable condition of a moral life, and thought that a considerable increase of man’s powers of production was possible” (Held, Soc. Gesch. Englands, pp. 351–2). Malthus himself did both.