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Show WAen Will th. World b, rull. Without asking counsel of Malthu-slanlam, Malthu-slanlam, but merely by applying the nineteenth century average of Increase to the future, Mr. J. Holt Schooling announces In the July Cosmopolitan that "the world will be full" In the year 22G0, at which time It will be Inhabited In-habited by f2.U00 billions of peraons, averaging 1.000 to the square mile. This good-humored prediction, bow-ever, bow-ever, based on the assumption that the rata of 1 per cent per year of Increase In the population of the earth, which obtained during th last century, will continue Indefinitely, la only Incidental to several Important and presumably reliable deduction concerning th movement of the earth's population during th laat century. |