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Charles Wilson On Malthus

An Essay on the Principle of Population and A Summary View of the Principle of Popula- tion T. R. Malthus edited by Antony Flew Pelican 7s) Malthus was an amiable man,......

Hugh Kearney On A New Kind Of History

Why magic? Or rather why do so many his- torians now find such matters important and interesting enough to write books about them? The answer lies in part in a reaction against......

Michael Oakeshott On Marx On Hegel

In 1843, at the age of twenty-four or so, Karl Marx wrote down in a large notebook his thoughts about some passages of a work known to us as Hegel's Philosophy of Right. What he......