ABSTRACT
The exertions of landlord and tenant were directed therefore rather to keep up corn than to keep down wages. There is a certain portion of a landlords income and of a peasant proprietors earnings that has an origin and character distinct from the rest, and demands the economists separate attention, whether it alone receives the name of rent or not; this is, the excess of the produce of land beyond the cost of production and the current rate of profits. The regular cultivation of such land for grain would of course be given up, and any sort of pasture, however scanty, would be more beneficial both to the landlord and farmer. This chapter examines the human character of the political economy of Thomas Robert Malthus appearing in his view of population. Malthus professes to have used the cautious method throughout, and the theory of population was only the particular instance where circumstances enabled him to make his verification most complete.
