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Show llio .Main 1 ullbii; Ilolilml. (wta 11,1 Htallitlcsaliow that tho malo riorula Hon of tlm civilised worl I Is falling farthirand farther behln 1 thu feuialo Acvorllng to Iho last llrlllab census tho uxcca of women anl girls ovr men and bujs In Ureal HrlUIn Is Aliout lUl.ooo, an liirria.o In ton ) vara of marly SUD.Odil. Tho (lerinau cenaua i f hit lln eiubvr I lania llio number of females about UOii.oOt) abovu that of the muh a In tho kingdom of Prussia, or ueiil) llirwi tlnici llio excers twont iarsago. Ihero niu l,uul,nuO ni'rc feinaloi than males In tilt uliole (lerinau emilre. Iti Hweleu and Norway llio Jlwcaker sex" am in the majority by lo'low, In Austria Hungary b) UJO.IHKI, In Donmark by liil.lHK), and In every l.uroiwau country liny uutntimlvr tlm inalrs. In the United Hliltif. Canada and Auatrnlla thunnlesarulu tho majority Ihotijli not largely so, thus attmaltd txcM of malia In thlBeouutryblDgoal 1,100, Ut)dorl,L1IJ,ua). Itfs plain that but for Immigration, which furnishes n much greater numlir of men than women, tlm latter would soon bo In tin mujorlly here. Thirn Is a largo l rcpondtranco now of females In New I.nglatid nnd In tomi otlur lections of tho United Htatis, nu I If Immigration wero to uiati rlally cltireaio undoiil lodly tlio surilus of males would soon tllaAMnr In tbo wholn country. In Itm civilised coiintiles, whore women nre llghll esleciuoil, It is otherwlso, ludlanav lug about six million more melt thmi women, whllo tho males largely pro jiouiUrute In China. Tlio obvious do-Uucllon do-Uucllon Is that tlio higher t Ivlllzntlon Is most favorable to tho iucreaso of tint feuislo sox, ami tills suggests thei In-Isnsllng In-Isnsllng ijucsllon whether clvlllu lion Is doing tho best thing for tht world In producing this mult. A fact oflmrdl Ins Interist troughtoutby the Ilrlliali eemus Is tho marked dc clluo In llio marrlucit rale, which hat liceti almoat steadily lending down ward for nearly two duct Ice. Menu llran tin ri has bienuu even mote tie ilded doclluu In tho birth rate, so Hint not only Is marrlagu dccrraeliig, lut rrarrlagi are I ccoiiiIiik Ii s rolltlaon Ihuaveruo, Tliero Is the samu tend ency In thlacountry,preallliig cliKllj among thu IwlUr clawits. An exevN-nfftiuales exevN-nfftiuales In a country Is certain t have an uufavi ratio liilluencoouthc marrlazo rale, nnd tho mural come, tiuences of such a stuto of atralrs cau easily bo conctlved. |