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Of Avarice and Profusion

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The following essay by William Godwin comes from the 1823 edition of his book The Enquirer. Reflections On Education, Manners, And Literature. In A Series Of Essays. Originally published in 1797, it served to spark an argument between Thomas Malthus and friends, which Malthus eventually answered by publishing, in 1798, his own essay on the 'principle of population.' This essay in turn influenced Charles Darwin in forming his theory of biological origins via natural selection. Darwin's scien...