A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 January 1933, Page 11

A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE

Dean Inge Peeps Into ihe Future

QOME speculations upon the future of tribution of population. Is it not ridithe British people were advanced colons that in England the population by Dean Inge in a lecture in London, should be 740 to the square mile, “I think we must look forward to a. whereas in Canada arid Australia it is gradual further displacement of our only two to the square mile. If all manual labour by machinery,” he said, the industrial and densely populated ‘■‘A groat uanv people think by that countries arc suffering from unemploywe shall gradually lose all our inven- meat, isn't the remedy to transfer .tA'oncss and enjoyment of beauty and people to countries where they could ali be doomed to the monotonous grind live? of performing the same automatic ac- “I should like to see this country, tion thc"sands of times a day. But I say a thousand years hence, with the liope that when things are better organ- population kept uniformly at about iscd the productive day’s work will be £0,000,000 —about half what we have shortened to, at the most, six hours, now—living mainly in villages and and then there will be several hours for small towns with no very large aggreeveryonc to follow some hobby that gations, except London. I am not at may be really- beautiful. But there all a pessimist about tne future of our are serious dangers which might dcs- race in the next thousand years. I see troy our civilisations, such as that in- no reason to think that we shall lose tensely -stupid institution—war. One what we have always considered the thing that might be done is the tedis-1 highest values.”