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So that the more the birth-rate has fallen the higher has been the rate of increase among the population. It is perhaps in Australia and New Zealand that we find the most satisfactory proofs of the benefits of a falling birth-rate in relation to "Race-Suicide." The evidence may well appeal to us the more since it is precisely here that the race-suicide fanatic finds freest scope for his wrath.
We have heard so often of our high death-rate and the means for combating it, but can it be seriously believed that with a birth-rate of 30 per 1000 it is possible to go on as we are doing with the death-rate brought down to the level of England or Scotland? Is there room enough in the country for the population to increase so fast as 20 per 1000 every year?
Immigrants come now in such large numbers that they tend to form alien groups of increasing proportions in the midst of the great cities. There is danger that the city will become a collection of districts little Italy, little Hungary, and little Syria and the sense of civic unity be destroyed. Even more significant is the high birth-rate of the foreigner.
It is obviously only just that the man who is doing nothing for the State in the way of rearing a family should be taxed to relieve the man who is. We hear so much about the falling birth-rate, and the duty of every married couple to have a family, yet everything is done to discourage those who do.
Finally, we come to the central problem of the mother who has a living husband in employment. It is the case of the working classes that really concerns us, not least because the greater part of the birth-rate comes therefrom.
Of the latter class we may say with Havelock Ellis that 'those who seek to restore the birth-rate of half a century ago are engaged in a task which would be criminal if it were not based on ignorance, and which is in any case fatuous. And yet I hope to show before the close of this article that for two or three generations the British Empire could absorb a considerable increase, and that the Government might with advantage stimulate this by schemes of colonisation.
It need hardly be pointed out that this increase in the age of marriage is one of the factors in the fall of the birth-rate, which is general throughout the leading countries of the world, proceeding now with great rapidity even in Germany.
But as that is out of the question, it is necessary to seek other ways of solving the Far Eastern question. China of the Chinese by E.T.C. Werner, p. 24. A clash is imminent. These statements are apparently unfounded. From a privately printed pamphlet by my friend Mr. V.K. Ting, I learn that Dr. Other investigations are quoted to show that the birth-rate near Peking is between 30 and 50. Mr.
'If you say so, said Pirolo thoughtfully, 'I can guarantee that they will become extinct in process of time, quite happily. What is their birth-rate now? 'Go down and ask 'em, said De Forest. 'I think they might become nervous and tear me to bits, the philosopher of Foggia replied. 'Not really? Well? 'Open the bilge-doors, said Takahira with a downward jerk of the thumb.
In ten years the percentage of physically efficient men in the rural districts decreased from 60.5 to 58.2 per cent., and this decrease is even more marked in particular provinces. Infant mortality, despite better hygienic conditions and more education, has not decreased, and in some districts has increased; while the birth-rate, especially in Prussia and Thuringia, has fallen off as well.
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