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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 3

TOO MUCH LIFE. There is to be an international conference at Geneva on the subject ot “World Population,” which will be considered, we are told, “purely, on a scientific basis.” That, ot course cannot be strictly true; on such a su >)ec scientists, like other men, have their prejudices and prepossessions. And, if it were true, we might expect moie nonsense than usual. Men "ius necessarily talk nonsense when the) attempt to be scientific concerning the less calculable aspects of such an extremely incalculable being as man. Population has since been going ahead, and yet, generally speaking, the world has more to do with than ever had; in the more advanced countries at any rate, people are bette. ihouiid. better clothed and l^fed than at any period ol history, crowded islands have become st.ll more crowded. But the life of all hut a comparatively small minority of population is fuller, richer, and more interesting than it was .n days when Carlyle laughed at the fears o the Mal.thusians. —“The Evening Stan dard.”