ABSTRACT
The implications of the above mentioned qualification are that: Malthus had come closer to Paley in 1803, but the ground of such rapprochement was more theodicy than ethics. The ill-famed passage on the ‘mighty feast of nature’ was a reductio ad absurdum of arguments like Godwin’s, based on Nature as a source for normative standards, by proving that Nature’s standards are virtually the opposite. Malthus had written that: A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he had a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claims of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. One among its leaders was educated at St. John’s College graduated in 1780, received Orders in 1782 and was elected to the curacy of Barton under Needwood where he resided for the rest of his life.
