The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
By Subject
MALTHUS / ON POPULATION
Have you seen the new work of Malthus on population? It is one of the
ablest I have ever seen. Although his main object is to delineate the
effects of redundancy of population, and to test the poor laws of
England, and other palliations for that evil, several important
questions in political economy, allied to his subject incidentally,
are treated with a masterly hand. It is a single octavo volume, and I
have been only able to read a borrowed copy, the only one I have yet
heard of. Probably our friends in England will think of you, and give
you an opportunity of reading it.
to Joseph Priestly, 29 January 1804
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