Book III.. Footnote 63:

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: