RACIAL DECAY AND THE BIRTH RATE
! Ido not;wish to break fresli ground on'the ' l ues 0 racial decay and declining birth ; rate though 'the fringe of the question £ barely touched. However, I may inform Tour correspondent that Grote is authority for statement that the decline of' Greece" caused by internal decay, and declining birth rate was the main symptom. As for Rome her population was sufficient to fight wars con' tmually and expand to the size of Eurone to-day, and till dry rot set in she maintain# an Empire which must have cost less in life to maintain than to conquer. The comparison with Asia is futile; for one thing the birth rate is not definitely known there and the teeming millions" are resolvable into a popnlation not so large for square miles as parts of Europe. It is safe to say the most virile races of and the most virile races of Asia are those, in each case respectively, with the largest _ birth rate. The cause' of Asia's •stagnation is probably that of a continent fed on vegetable diet compared with meat-eating nations, or it may be racial. SANITAS
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 6
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