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The storm raised by the first edition of Malthus' book resulted in his more careful consideration of the subject, and material alterations in his text, so that when the second edition appeared in 1803 it was very different from the first edition: a good many of the more offensive and callous paragraphs were removed, and the scope of the work greatly extended. Even yet, however, it left an unsatisfactory impression on many of its readers. Some of their comments were trenchant, and among them I have had the privilege of seeing the original 1803 edition with its very wide margins filled with extensive annotations by Coleridge the Poet, who was evidently aroused to a scornful fury by the pages even of this revised and mellowed Malthus.

The greatest and most enduring opponent of Malthus, however (the one whom to-day, nevertheless all the Neo-Malthusians are actually following!) is Francis Place. His famous book "Principles of Population"