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In his Essays in Biography, J. M. Keynes praised the second edition of An Essay on Population in the following terms:
[P]olitical philosophy gives way to political economy, general principles are overlaid by the inductive verification of a pioneer in sociological history, and the brilliance and high spirits of a young man writing in the last year of the Directory disappear.1
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J. M. Keynes, Essays in Biography (London, 1951) p. 99.
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Magnusson, L. (1986). Malthus in Scandinavia 1799. In: Turner, M. (eds) Malthus and His Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18218-3_4
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