George's Malthusian Correction

Not long ago, I mentioned Henry George and my desire to find his book, Progress and Poverty. I did! And now I am plowing through it as I can. George's writing can best be described as Victorian; long sentences with a flow quite unlike today's more preferred writing style. You'll see for yourself in some of the excerpts (should you continue reading).

Before you click away, he let me know about a controversy dating way back to 1887 of which I had never heard, but which tells me that the state of economics education/dissemination has not really changed that much. I've made it past Book III of P&P, and much of it has been dedicated to George's hating on a name still quite familiar today; Reverend Thomas Malthus. Decrying that Malthus was wrong or whatever is not the anomaly here; George is pointing out what errors he finds in Malthus because of a unique reading of Malthus apparently quite popular ( in ways I had never, ever heard. )