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I have placed the following essay on my web site: 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/papers/index.html 
There are a number of other essays and a couple of books on matters 
Darwinian and Malthusian at the site, as well. 
Feedback very welcome. 
 
Best, Bob Young 
 
'Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint' 59K Thirty years ago I 
wrote an article on the common context of biological and social theory, 
using Malthus as a key text and exploring how various writers had read him 
and had come up with very different conclusions: William Paley, Thomas 
Chalmers, Darwin, Wallace, Spencer, Marx and Engels. This article generated 
a number of commentaries and refutations, primarily seeking to disprove my 
conclusions about the connection between Darwin and Malthus and the role of 
Malthus in the origination of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural 
selection. I have stood my ground and have argued that quite a lot hangs on 
the connection. On the occasion of the first invitation I have ever had to 
deliver a paper to a conference of the Wellcome Institute for the History 
of Medicine (an ideologically and personally antagonistic director having 
been forcibly retired), I took the opportinity to reflect on this 
controversy, bring in some new evidence and draw philosophical conclusions 
about the role of praxis in human nature, as sanctioned by the first 
professional social scientist and the founder of modern evolutionary 
theory. I urge modern Darwinians to emulate these eminent forbearers in 
granting a role for praxis in human nature. I also touch on the wider role 
of Malthus and Malthusianism in the history of thought. The paper was 
presented to a conference on 'Malthus, Medicine and Science' organised by 
Roy Porter at the Wellcome Institute, London, on 20 March 1998. 
 
 
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