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The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays
William Hazlitt , Jon Mee , and James Grande
Abstract
This excellent saying of a great man was never more strictly applicable to any system than it is to Mr. Malthus’s paradox, and his explanation of it. It seemed, on the first publication of the Essay on Population,* if the whole world was going to be turned topsy-turvy; all our ideas of moral good and evil were in a manner confounded, we scarcely knew whether we stood on our head or our heels; but, after exciting considerable expectation, giving us a good shake, and making us a little dizzy, Mr. M. does, as we do when we shew the children London — sets us on our feet again, and every thing goes on as before.
