POPULATION
Sir, —As we receive our daily ration of the world’s chaos through your columns, those capable of abstract thought naturally ask themselves, “to what is the fall of a civilisation due? Surely there is only one answer, and that is over-population.” Recently the following was put into my hands. I know not the author. “Over-popula-tion. Is this improvement? When the human breed degenerate and swarm and overflow. Till toil becomes cheaper than the trodden weed, and man competes with man, like foe with foe.
till death that claims them scarce seems public woe? Improvement! Smiles it in the poor man’s eyes, or blooms it on the cheek of labour? No! To gorge a few with trade’s precarious prize, we banish rural life, and breathe unwholesome skies..”—Yours, etc., M. G. DAVIES. Hanmer. December 15, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28154, 18 December 1956, Page 22
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