Not only is the race as a whole increasing in number, especially its White branches, but even among the separate national groups there is not even one civilised people anywhere in the world that is decreasing in number.

On the contrary they are all, even France, increasing at a more or less rapid rate.

In England and Wales, for example, where the birth-rate has steadily fallen during the last forty years from 36 to 23 (I disregard the abnormal rates of War-time) the population is still increasing, and even if the present falls in birth-rate and death-rate continue, it will for years still go on increasing by an excess of over 1,000 births a day.

When we realise that this is merely what goes on in one corner of the world and must be multiplied enormously to represent the whole, we shall find it impossible even to conceive the prodigious flow of excess babies which is being constantly poured over the earth.

If we are capable of realising all the problems which thereby arise we must be forced to ask ourselves: _Is this state of things desirable_?
"Be ye fruitful and multiply." That command was, according to the old story, delivered to a world inhabited by eight people.