Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editorial procedures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Sermons
- 2 Malthus' diary of a tour of the Lake District
- 3 Bullion trade transactions
- 4 An essay on foreign trade
- 5 Essays and notes on Charles I and Mary, Queen of Scots
- 6 Questions and answers on early European history
- 7 Harriet Malthus' diary of a family tour of Scotland in 1826
- 8 Letters to Harriet Malthus from her mother, Catherine Eckersall
- 9 Eight brief miscellaneous items
- Appendix A Additional material not reproduced
- Appendix B Letters to David Ricardo
- Bibliography
- Kanto Gakuen Catalogue
- Index
1 - Sermons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editorial procedures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Sermons
- 2 Malthus' diary of a tour of the Lake District
- 3 Bullion trade transactions
- 4 An essay on foreign trade
- 5 Essays and notes on Charles I and Mary, Queen of Scots
- 6 Questions and answers on early European history
- 7 Harriet Malthus' diary of a family tour of Scotland in 1826
- 8 Letters to Harriet Malthus from her mother, Catherine Eckersall
- 9 Eight brief miscellaneous items
- Appendix A Additional material not reproduced
- Appendix B Letters to David Ricardo
- Bibliography
- Kanto Gakuen Catalogue
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The following four sermons were written at various times between 1798 and 1832. They are the only sermons by Malthus known to have survived. As far as we are aware, no mention of their existence has ever appeared in the secondary literature on Malthus.
On the first three sermons Malthus added a number of dates – presumably the dates on which he delivered them – although it is not impossible that he repeated them on other occasions without noting the dates – and alongside some of the dates he wrote place names, presumably the places where they were delivered. No dates or places are added to the fourth sermon, and the manuscript is incomplete, ending in mid-sentence. This suggests either that part of the sermon has been lost, or that the sermon was never completed and never delivered. The large number of insertions and deletions in the fourth sermon suggests an unfinished draft.
Another feature of the sermons is a number of diagonal marks inserted in the manuscripts. If, as seems likely, their purpose was to indicate pauses, they showed that Malthus took as much care with the delivery as with the content.
Another feature of the sermons is a number of diagonal marks inserted in the manuscripts. If, as seems likely, their purpose was to indicate pauses, they showed that Malthus took as much care with the delivery as with the content.
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