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Often appears with: logic, method, and demonstration · julius caesar · hume's criterion critique · history and the writing of history · famine, scarcity, and plenty · china fertility and frugality
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · curiosity (1) · skepticism (1)
Malthus shifts to civilized Europe, claiming population is higher than in Julius Caesar’s time because Europe produces more food, and he reviews criteria and errors about estimating ancient populations.
State of civilized nations--Probability that Europe is much more populous now than in the time of Julius Caesar--Best criterion of population--Probable error of Hume in one the criterions that he proposes as assisting in an estimate of population--Slow increase of population at present in most of the states of Europe--The two principal checks to population--The first, or preventive check examined with regard to Engla…