malthus had wide exposure in american popular culture. there were local american reprints of his book. there were long excerpts of work reprinted in newspapers often times with critical commentary debating against him and casual comments were very common in books and broadsides. obviously i don't have time to go into detail here there is one i think funny and memorable american maxim that can kind of stand in for the general popular reaction. an author by the name of mason weems, may remember him as a awe author of a popular biography of george washington at the time was equally well-known for a book on marriage. he said, quote. i'm very clear that the buck skin heroes of our nation are made of at least as good stuff as any of the best of the beef-eating gentry on the other side of the water. but, he said, being good soldiers wasn't enough. nothing could save the united states while the british could outnumber them 10 to one. quote, no, my friends, tis population, tis population alone that can save our bacon. if this wasn't explicit or wi