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The ingenious contextualization of Malthus's intended target Godwin does 
not at all mention the other obvious target - Condorcet, with his theory 
of inevitable progress (true, Condorcet anticipated artificial means of 
limiting population growth in his unpublished notes, but Malthus would not 
have known about this, though he would have known about Condorcet's 
feminism).  So on the grounds alone of questioning a theory of inevitable 
progress (aside from the morality or immorality of lifestyles of Godwin's 
circle and Mary Wollstonecraft), there might have been ample motivation 
for Malthus to intervene with a theory of virtually inevitable misery. 
 
Martin S. Staum 
 
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