47G APPENDIX. 



I8I7. 



Since the publicatiou of the last edition of this Essay in 

 1807, two Works have appeared, the avowed objects of 

 which are directly to oppose its principles and conchisions. 

 These are the Principles of Population and Production, by 

 Mr. Weyland; and an Inquiry into the Principle of Popu- 

 lation, by Mr. James Grahame. 



I would willingly leave the question as it at present stands 

 to the judgment of the public, without any attempt on my 

 part to influence it further by a more particular reply; but 

 as I professed my readiness to enter into the discussion of 

 any serious objections to my principles and conclusions, 

 which were brought forward in a spirit of candour and truth; 

 and as one at least of the publications above mentioned may 

 be so characterised, and the other is by no means deficient 

 in personal respect; I am induced shortly to notice them. 



I should not however have thought it necessary to advert 

 to Mr. Grahame's publication, which is a slight work without 

 any very distinct object in view, if it did not afford some 

 strange specimens of misrepresentation, which it may be 

 useful to point out. 



Mr. Grahame in his second chapter, speaking of the ten- 

 dency exhibited by the law of human increase to a redund- 

 ance of population, observes, that some philosophers have 

 considered this tendency as a mark of the foresight of nature, 

 which has thus provided a ready supply for the waste of life 

 occasioned by human vices and passions; while " others, 

 " of whom Mr. Malthus is the leader, regards the vices and 

 " follies of human nature, and their various products, fa- 

 *• mine, disease and war, as benevolent remedies by which 

 " nature has enabled human beings to correct the disorders 

 " that would arise from that redundance of population 

 " which the unrestrained operation of her laws would 

 " create."* 



* r. 100. 



