Abstract
Robert Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population, written to refute the optimistic predictions of the Marquis de Condor-cet and William Godwin, was acknowledged by contemporaries to be one of the most powerful works of its age. This article reviews the historical circumstances that disposed Malthus’s readers to his views and, especially, analyzes the rhetoric of the Essay itself in an effort to explain the causes of Malthus’s decisive victory over his opponents and to locate the sources of the Essay’s enduring power.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Quarterly Journal of Speech |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1987 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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