"JUSTITIA" AND POPULATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 282, 29 November 1927, Page 6

"JUSTITIA" AND POPULATION.

Others besides Dean Inge are concerned t> see Scots folk populating America and (On* * ing the Irish to take their places in The last sentence in "Justitia's" letter* striking evidence—all the more signified" because it is both unintentional and Conscious—that the supplanters are not to k considered as tlie most desirable diss rf citizens. He says that "were the Deaa to preach the doctrine of Malthus, it would fc labour in vain if addressed to the low m" Irish.'" Exactly! Malthus pointed out Jncoi. trovertible facts of the tendency to oi«population. The area of the habitable globe» limited; and even if only the present rate of multiplication is maintained the tim f b a few generations away when wonlrtwj overtake the carrying capacity of and faei supply available from the whole wadd. Something must be done to prevent otcrpopulation. It is one of the serious Questions, even now pressing heavily on the humannS' and daily increasing in severity, that the man unfit, with but little self-control, sustained «d cherished by modern medical -and social' science, multiply in their millions, while the more thoughtful classes are, with forethought, limiting their numbers. Both from a physical and intellectual the average quality of mankind is thus l»inr degraded, and the general level of *m».. worth and character is being lowered.

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