1. Dr W. P. Alison, Observations on the Management of the Poor in Scotland and its Effects on the Health of Great Towns, Edinburgh, 1840.
2. Dr A. Alison, Principles of Population, and Their Connection with Human Happiness, 1840, Vol. 2.
3. Dr A. Alison in an article read before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, October 1844, in York.
4. Alison, Observations on the Management of the Poor in Scotland.
5. P. Gaskell, Manufacturing Population of England: its Moral, Social and Physical Condition, and the Changes which have arisen from the Use of Steam Machinery; with an Examination of Infant Labour, 1833, Ch. 8.
6. Report of Commission of Inquiry into the Employment of Children and Young Persons in Mines and Collieries and in the Trades and Manufactures in which numbers of them work together, not being included under the terms of the Factories’ Regulation Act. First and Second Reports, Granger’s Report. Second Report usually cited as Children’s Employment Commission’s Report. First Report, 1841; Second Report, 1843.
7. Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
8. Dr Cowen, ‘Vital Statistics of Glasgow [Illustrating the Sanitary Condition of the Population’, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, October 1840].
9. Report of Commission of Inquiry into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts. First Report, 1844. Appendix.
10. Factories’ Inquiry Commission’s Reports, 3rd vol. Report of Dr Hawkins on Lancashire, in which Dr Roberton is cited – the ‘Chief Authority for Statistics in Manchester’.
11. Quoted by Dr Wade from the Report of the Parliamentary Factories’ Commission of 1832, in his History of the Middle and Working Classes, London, 1835,3rd edn.
12. Children’s Employment Commission’s Report. App. Part II. Q. 18, Nos. 216,217,226,233, etc. Home.
13. ibid., Evidence, pp. 9, 39; 133.
14. ibid., pp. 9, 36; 146.
15. ibid., pp. 34, 158.
16. Symons’ Rep. App. PartI, pp. E., 22 ff.
17. J. C. Symons, Arts and Artisans at Home and Abroad, Edinburgh, 1839.
18. Alison, Principles of Population, Vol. 2, pp. 196, 197.
19. Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, London, 1840, p. 34 ft.
20. ibid., p. 40.
21. Shall I call bourgeois witness to bear testimony for me here, too? I select one only, whom every one may read, namely, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (MacCulloch’s four-volume edition), Vol. 3, book 5, Ch. 8, p. 297.
22. Alison, Principles of Population, Vol. 2, p. 76 ff., pp. 82, 135.
23. Dr Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures, London, 1835, p. 406 ff.
24. The idea that large-scale industry has split the English into two different nations has, as is well known, been carried out about the same time also by Disraeli in his novel Sybil, or the Two Nations (note in the German edition of 1892).
25. On the Present Condition of the Labouring Poor in Manchester, etc. By the Rev. Rd. Parkinson, Canon of Manchester, 3rd edn, London and Manchester, 1841. Pamphlet.
26. Alison, Principles of Population, passim (note in the German edition).
27. Sitting of the Lower House on 28 February 1843 (note in the German edition).
28. Alison, Principles of Population, Vol. 2 (note in the German edition).
29. Gaskell, op. cit., Ch. 10.