 The term "struggle for existence" was already in use by this time.For example, in 1790 Jeremy Bentham proposed reformed elections as "a contest for distinction, not a struggle for existence", and in 1795 "The Monthly Review" used it to describe trees when discussing Thomas Cooper's "Some Information Respecting America".In a House of Lords speech on 2 November 1797, Lord Gwydir said they were engaged "in a struggle for existence as a nation" in the French Revolutionary Wars.