EUROPE IN A.D. 2000.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1973, 28 February 1885, Page 4

EUROPE IN A.D. 2000.

, London Spectator ] Ihun Kim mir, thief ot the Swiss Fedtial l.uieau of St itistio, ,in adiniralilf institution which is always doinc something n^ff ul, has been ittkoinnghow m.my people there are likely to \>v in Europe at tlio <nd of tin' twentieth teituiy. Excluding Russia. Spain, Poitugol, and Tin key— countries fiom vvhiui he has not be able to pi nun c trustworthy it turns wlicioonto base Ins L'llcnhtioiiM-hufiiula that in AD I>C| )0 tht 1 remainder of iOuiofto will pos^e I ** a population of f>G">, SOI, 101 ; but no «c are under no oblisjition to be painfully ,nc cur iti> as Hpit h.ummcr» and the conn tnes in question has t, already 100,000 000 tnhihitantb, and as ,tho Kusm.uis an* a pinliiic lacr, we may "»afely av-uine that if the pirst nt rate of increase o mtiiuics, tie grand total will reach, if it do not exceed, S00, 000,001) — about half the present population of the entire world. As tor our kinsfolk across the Atlantic, if they go on increasing and multiplying as they have done the lost two or threescore yeais, they will be almost past counting, and number probnhly 600,000,000, in which e\ent tbo United States will be about a3 eligible a field for emigration ab China. The timo at which this may come to piss being far from remote — two live 3 ol fifty eight years each will cover the inter \al— it is an intctesting speculation as to how should these caf dilations prove true, our great grandchildien arc likely to fare in the struggle for existence at the daw n of the twentylirst century According to Herr Ku minor, the Unit-d Kingdom may then count (he is caiefui not to say "will ) 121) millions of inhabitants. In that event tins lountry would be more quickly populated than ever country was before, on desicndi-nts would, probably, de\ilip some of the qualities which the Uct n stiuggle for existence has produced among the people of the I'elestial Einpne. Thrift would become the most valuable of qualities, waste and e\tnungancc the worst of vices. As it is not conceivable that 129,000,000 could obtain the wheicwithal to keep body and soul together otherwise than by exchanging inamifactuies for food, factories would cover the face of the land. Liverpool and Manchester would join hands, Birmingham and Sheffield grow until they touched, ami London blacken with its huge bulk a dozen of the fair counties of Southern Enghnd. The only places where a man might still get a breath of fresh air, citch a glimpse of the sky, and li^ar the voice of buds would be in the wilder parts of the Scottish Highlands and the Welbh mountains. The population of the Kingdom, which in 181 ."» was fifteen millions, is now thirty-six millions, that is to say, it has grown more in the last seventy years than it accreted in all the untold ages of the pre\ ions past. For our o\ui pai t, m c do not see in this any cause for disquietude, rather indeed for satisfaction. Our people are far better oiT than when they were half as numerous, better housed, better fed, and better taught. Their hvcb are happier, and their future is brighter. Though the woild has not prown actmlly bigger, there h more of it available for the u>e of mankind than ever before ; and it would almost Mjem as if Providence had destined our race to people most of the wa>te places of the earth. No more shikiiik phenomenon in the history of nations was ever witnessed than the gieat westwaid movement of population which is now going on. It is a movement that must irather strength , is it procicds, for, in addition to the vast unoccupied terri tones of the United States and the Dominion, there ate lich and almost limitless lands on the south, as yet peopled only by savage tribes and w ild animals. .South and Central America possess a population of little more than ,30,000,000 ; they could feud a population of 300,000,000, and have as much food to spaie as would keep half Europe. People sometimes forget that these tropic ll and sub tropical countries, as touching the fertility of their soil, are equal to double the aiea of less favoured lands. They pioduce two and tin ec crops a year, and there is haidly any limit to the population that they might not be made to support. Thtn theie is Australia—a continent that is only beginning to be peopled, and where alone there is loom for the entire Teutonic race. Kvc:i Europe, old as she is, and " played out," as some seem to think, is not peopled to the extent of its capacity. Austii tis fai from full, and the countries still held and blighted by the Turk, if wisely governed would support in comfort a population as large as that of Fiance As to what m.iy happen in the remote future ib would be presumptuous to offer an opinion ; but taking a short \iew of the matter there is nothing in Herr Kummcr's calculations that need alarm us or cause us to apprehend tint we arc within measiireable distance of a time when the inlui'ntauts of these islands -will be fighting for standing loom and thrusting each other into the sea.

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