Chapter XVII: Book III: Footnote 63

_Essay_, 1st ed., p. 381.

Footnote 64:

_Ibid._ p. 371.

Footnote 65:

Cf. _Essay_, 2nd ed., p. 65; later editions, I. vi. (beginning), where
he says that sloth is the natural state of man, and his activity is
due in the first instance to the “strong goad of necessity,” though it
may be kept up afterwards by habit, the spirit of enterprise, and the
thirst for glory.

Footnote 66:

1st ed., pp. 360–366. For the replenishment of the gap made by the
Great Plague of 1348, see Prof. Rogers, _Six Centuries of Work and
Wages_ (1884), p. 226.

Footnote 67:

1st ed., p. 391.

Footnote 68:

1st ed., pp. 394–6; cf. pp. 241–6. Compare Mr. Henry George’s epilogue
to _Progress and Poverty_. It is right to remember that this passage
of Malthus was written two years before Paley’s _Natural Theology_,
though four years after his _Evidences of Christianity_, and many more
after the _Moral and Political Philosophy_.

Footnote 69:

_R. of Cr._, vol. ii. 103.

Footnote 70:

_Essay_, 1st ed., p. 387.

Footnote 71:

See below, Book I. ch. v.

Footnote 72:

_Ibid._ p. 356 note.

Footnote 73:

_l. c._ He is ready with a similar excuse in the tract on the _Measure
of Value_, p. 61. Where there is no will there is no way.

Footnote 74: