ABSTRACT
Malthus spends most pains in illustrating the contrast between the France before the Revolution and the France at the Peace of Amiens. In many ways it was fortunate that he confined himself to the Republican period. To reconcile France people Malthus shows, how, according to the figures given by Frenchmen themselves. He explains that the numbers of the unmarried survivors at home were more than enough to have kept up in case of necessity the old number of marriages and the old rate of increase. Malthus explores that how from general principles there was a presumption in favour of a rapid increase at such a time. He examines that how the social and industrial conditions of the French people since the Revolution were favourable to an increase of population. The French labouring classes at the beginning of the Revolution were seventy-six per cent worse fed, clothed, and supported than their fellows in England.
