Mr James Edmond, editor of t/he Sydney Bulletin, writes entertainingly m the National Beview, on the birth-rate. He
argues that if the birth-rate had not decreased the world would soon [be unable to. provide food for the population. Even irr England and Wales, it can be Bhown, lie argues, by arithmetic, that if the present superfluity of births over deaths is maintained, m 330 years from now England and Wajes will have 2,400,000,---000 people. "From the first Monday of chaos until the year 1801," writes thp contributor, the accumulation of hum^ artity . was comparatively trifling. From 1901 until now it has been, tremendous, filmost iucredjble. The increase has been so vaat that the question may yet arise, "Ig man really a rabbit?" . Mr Edmond remarks that "m a few sparsely-peopled lands, which lack men for 'defence/ the birthrate is still an excellent "fetish." But m some of the older countries it has outlived its usefulness,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 3
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