sentences:  Sadler published (1830) the "Law of Population" which he derived from this detailed examination of available population statistics ("The Prolificness of human beings, otherwise similarly circumstanced, varies inversely as their numbers") in a large book of the same name "more than thirteen hundred closely-printed pages, crowded with an hundred-and-four statistical tables" which left most reviewers at a loss for words.However, Thomas Babington Macaulay writing in the "Edinburgh Review", was neither daunted nor impressed, beginning his review
  We did not expect a good book from Mr Sadler ; and it is well that we did not ; for he has given us a very bad one.The matter of his treatise is extraordinary ; the manner more extraordinary still.