The radical remedy in social science, or, Borning better babies through regulating reproduction by controlling conception : an earnest essay on pressing problems / by E.J. Foote, Jr.

  • Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bond), 1854-1912.
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[1886], ©1886
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    4> 16 THE EADICAL EEMEDY IN SOOIAI. SCIENCE. CHAPTER II. The L.aw of Excess or Waste Operating1 In Positive Population Checks. The Malthusian statement of the law of population has received its most fierce criticism from Henry George in Progress and Poverty, and doubtless there is much truth in his argument that where population appears to be excessive, with resulting vice and misery, such evils might readily be overcome by a more equable distribu- tion of products, through more just social arrangements. It is nevertheless true that if men were living under social arrangements which should supply the wants of everyone, and render all perfectly comfortable, popula- tion would increase more rapidly than it has ever been known to do, and the day of scarcity would inevitably and in fact very rapidly approach. Mr. Moncure D. Conway, the well-known London correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, wrote not long ago : The question of increase of population in this country is a terrible one, an urgent one. The struggle for existence has become a civil war. The Mal- thusian question is up, and nothing can put it down. Other students of English and European affairs de- clare that Malthusianism is not the imminent question, that present difficulties may be overcome and threatened dangers averted by devising methods for the more