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In ranging over so many different societies in preparation for his long edition, Malthus was constantly looking in voyagers’ accounts and within existing histories for evidence of what happened to the “least fortunate.” But he found his sources insufficient in this respect, repeatedly critiquing existing “histories of mankind” the tradition in which he was himself writing. Quite simply, he wrote, the lower classes were far too often ignored; “the misfortune of all history” he called it, meaning the misfortune of all history-writing. “The histories of mankind that we possess, are histories only of the higher classes. We have but few accounts that can be depended upon of the manners and customs of that part of mankind, where there retrograde and progressive movements [that is, the oscillation of population] chiefly take place.” And elsewhere, he regretted that the histories of princes and leaders neglected to examine the motives of “willing followers.” It is no wonder that Malthus was at least as much ethnographer as he was historian. But this was also consistent with his efforts to analytically privilege the aggregate over the single unit, population over the individual. His argument for the abolition of the Poor Law, for example, he regretted as difficult for individual families, but ultimately better economic policy for the whole. Private and public interest were not necessarily the same. ~ Page 164
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