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Unpublished Marginalia in Coleridge's Copy of Malthus's Essay on Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

George Reuben Potter
George Reuben Potter*
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University of California
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Extract

In a letter to Wedgewood from Göttingen in 1799, Coleridge said: Before I left England, I had read the book of which you speak [Malthus's first Essay on Population, published in 1798]. I must confess that it appeared to me exceedingly illogical. … My objections to the Essay on Population you will find in my sixth letter at large—but do not, my dear sir, suppose that because unconvinced by this essay, I am therefore convinced of the contrary. … Is the march of the human race progressive, or in cycles?

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , December 1936 , pp. 1061 - 1068
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1936

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References

1 “Malthus is a very clever man, and the world would be a great gainer if it would seriously take his lessons into consideration, if it were capable of attending seriously to anything but mischief—but what on earth does he mean by some of his inferences!” Shelley's Leiters from Italy, Forman's edition of Shelley's prose, iv, 42.

2 See Hazlitt's A Reply to the Essay on Population.