P.S. Assuming what Malthus considers an ordinary rate of increase,
when population is unchecked, viz. a doubling in 25 years, 70
persons in 430 years would increase to 10,539,000: which is what
ÆGROTUS wishes to know.
At Vol. v., p. 11., ÆGROTUS suggests that the "600,000 men" of Ex. xii.
37. mean "men and women." He will find some valuable "Notes" on Hebrew
statistics in the 1st and 2d chapters of Numbers, that appear to
militate against his theory! (Numb. i. 1, 2, 3., ii. 32.)