He was a great naturalist as well as a great individualist, yet
he condemned the use of artificial checks to population by
the married. He was, moreover, much influenced by the
writings of Malthus on population, yet he did not descend to
advise the theories of the Neo-Malthusians. Their system is,
in a word, self-abandonment to luxury. It eats up every
ambition and a proper desire to excel. It busies itself not
with the grandeur of the race or nation, but in what way the
idle and the indolent can best indulge their pernicious desires.
It entirely subordinates the best interests of the community
to the self-indulgence of the individual.
