An Essay on the Principle of Population
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind () is a work by the French philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet, written in 1794 while in hiding during the French Revolution and published posthumously in 1795. The first edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) by Thomas Malthus was largely written as a response to the work of William Godwin and Condorcet's "Sketch", as is evidenced by its full title: "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the Future Improvement of Society with remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers".