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Show REASON OF SMALL FAMILY In Large Communities the StruggU for Existence Already la Much Too Severe, It must bo remeinberod that as In-crenso In-crenso of population progresses, tbc mcro fact of Increase creates new conditions. Thoso In turn may check or destroy earlier tendencies Thus, out of tho great Incrcaso In population popula-tion In our time has como already at least ono significant fact. This may bo termed "tho pressure of population." popula-tion." It may bo defined as tho general gen-eral Instlnctlvo realization of large numbers. Expression of this realization realiza-tion appoars In tlio decreasing belief that personal responsibility rests upon tho individual to rear a large family, or even, in many cnncs, to bo-como bo-como a pnrcnt Mere numbers the pressure of humanity on till sides, especially es-pecially In tho Inrgo cities constitute cvor-prcsent evidence to tho average man and woman that there aro people enough, and tho strugglo for existence la too sovero nlrcady to bo Increased by unnecessary burdens. In consequence, conse-quence, thoro has arisen a rather re-markablo re-markablo and wldesnrcTd tendency, now clearly evident In most of tho larger communities of Turopo, voluntarily volun-tarily to limit tho fnmily. The effect of this tendency Is most marked In Franco, where It has produced a present pres-ent stnto of equilibrium of population Ilablo to bo changed nt any tlmo into a posltlvo nntlonnl decroaso. Limitation Limita-tion of family has also appeared In othor parts of tho world and hna caused much concern In Australia, whoro a very small total white population popu-lation Is shown It should not be I overlooked, however In connoctlon with the apparently exceptional prob-lorn prob-lorn presontcd by Australia, that tho southern contlnont seems never to have sustained a largo population. Tho nborlglncs of Austria, Now Zea-Innd Zea-Innd nnd Tasmania woro not numerous, numer-ous, nnd thoso that remain nro dying out so rnpldly as to suggest n very frail racial grasp upon oxlstonco. Tho Atlantic. n i |