Over-Population and its Remedy; or, an Inquiry into the extent and cau

THORNTON (William Thomas).

Over-Population and its Remedy; or, an Inquiry into the extent and causes of the distress prevailing among the labouring classes of the British Islands, and into the means of remedying it.

First edition. 8vo. xi, [1, blank], 446, [2], 32 [publisher’s advertisements dated October 1845] pp. Original brown embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed (cloth faintly marked, front hinge just starting with thin strip of tape reinforcement, some trivial wear to extremities, a very good copy overall). London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846.

£550.00

Thornton’s anti-Malthusian work is based on his study of the Irish labouring classes, and reaches the conclusion that the subdivision of the land and private ownership were the remedies for poverty. Like John Stuart Mill, Thornton was employed at the East India Company and they became good friends upon the publication of this work. Thornton is best known for his work On Labour (1869), the arguments of which were instrumental in changing Mill’s views.

See Donoghue, Faithful Victorian, William Thomas Thornton, 1813-1880.

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