And then he turns from, those great centres of prosperity and civilisation to Australia, to New Zealand, and his voice is choked and tears fill his eyes as he sees the goal of "Race-Suicide" nearly in sight and the spectre of the Last Man rising before him.

For there is no doubt about it, Australia and New Zealand contain a population which is gradually reaching the highest point yet known of democratic organisation and general social well-being, and the birth-rate has been falling with terrific speed.

Sixty-years ago in the Australian Commonwealth it was nearly 44, only forty years ago in New Zealand it was 42.

Now it is only about 26 in both lands.

Yet the survival-rate, the actual growth of the population, is not so very much less with this low birth-rate than it was with the high birth-rate.