Health and Social Progress (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Health and Social Progress The population of the earth in 1800 was approximately 600,000,000; in 1900, it was about 1,600,000,000 - an increase of nearly 270 per cent. If, during the twentieth century, there should be a similar increase - and the indications are all in that direction - the population in the year 2000 will be about 4,320,000,000. The question arising then will be, Where shall we get food? The time will not even then have arrived when, according to Fourier, our scientists will be able to turn the rocks of our mountains into bread and cakes, or the brine of the oceans into most delicious lemonade. The question will have to be faced in a matter-of-fact way instead of dreaming about it in a romantic fashion. Roughly speaking, two forms of answers have been given - that of the pessimist and that of the optimist. Among the pessimists we may reckon all those whose profession or attitude compels or inclines them to look backward. They have paid a heavy price for doing so, since no one can look into the past constantly without getting a wry neck and having his thought twisted. These people gloomily predict an increasingly more severe struggle, since, if it is only with the utmost difficulty that the present population maintains itself, what must happen if the population is nearly three times as large? Civilization will be doomed, or be confined to a few favored spots; anarchy will prevail, and the second state of mankind will be infinitely worse than the first, because men have learned how to do more harm than ever before. The optimist believes in human nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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