A fair question.  The only item a quick search turns up is in "A.R. Wallace's Campaign to nationalize land", AJES, December, 1997. Unfortunately, the author is myself and there is no other citation. That was 15 years ago.  I assume I had a source, but can't ask you to assume that, so I'll keep looking. 

Henry George's book on The Irish Land Question would be a good start. Maybe it was from Jonathan Swift's cookbook for preparing Irish babies.

Meantime I'll fall back on Browning's reply: "When I wrote that only God and I knew what it meant; now, only God knows."
You must admit, though, it would be in character for Malthus.

Mason Gaffney

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As an occasional student of Malthus's work, I should be grateful for an 
exact bibliographic reference to support this contention.

Anthony Waterman



On 23/07/2012 6:59 AM, mason gaffney wrote:
> It seems to me there is a pretty direct genealogy leading from Malthus to Eugenics - and back again!
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> 1. Malthus rationalized England's stealing of Irish land and turning it over to "the Protestant Ascendancy". The Irish had big families. The world was running short of land.  The only way to stop them was to starve them by raising their rents.
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