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Show REASON OF SMALL FAMILY In Large Communities the Struggle for Existence Already It Much I Too Severe. It must bo remembered that as In-- In-- rreaso of population progresses, the mcro fact of Increase creates now j conditions. Theso In turn may check , or destroy earlier tendencies. Thus', out of the great Increase In popula-I popula-I tlon In our time has come already at , least one significant fact. This may bo termed "the pressure of population." popula-tion." It may be deflnod as the general gen-eral Instlnctlvo realization of large numbers. Expression of this realization realiza-tion appears In tho decreasing belief that personal responsibility rests upon tho Individual to rear a large family, or even, In muny cases, to be-como be-como a raront. Mcro numbors the pressure of humanity on all sides, os-poclally os-poclally In tho Inrgo cities constitute ever-present evidence to the average man nnd woman thnt there are people enough, and tho struggle for existence hi too sovero already lo bo Increased hy unnecessary burdens. In consequence conse-quence thero has arisen a rather re-mnrknbln re-mnrknbln nnd widespread tendency, now rlenrly evident In most of the 'nrger communities of Europe, voluntarily volun-tarily to limit tho family The effect of this tendency Is most marked In France, where It has produced n present pres-ent state of equilibrium of population llnblo to be chnnged nt nny tlmo Into a positive natlonnl decrease. Limitation Limita-tion of family has nlso appoared In other pnrts of tho world nnd has caused much concern In Australia. 1 wlicro n very small total whlto popu-'ittlon popu-'ittlon Is shown. It should not he overlooked, however, In connection with the nppnrontly exceptional prob lem presented by Australia, that tho southern continent seems never to hnvo Biistnlned a largo population. The aborigines of Austria, Now Zen-land Zen-land and Tasmania wero not numerous, numer-ous, and those that remain nro dying out so rapidly as to suggest n very frnll racial grasp upon existence. Tho Atlantic. |