The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-11

Total 20. 26s, 900 49, 1901 900 4,lsO0OO &C. $500
THE POSSIBLE POPULATION.

The task Of estimating the number of
people whom this earth OF ours would be
capable of supplying with food and other
necessaries OF life, once it had been fairly
brought under cultivation, is very difficult.
There are at present some vegetarisns; these
would maintain that if their peculiar views
were accepted, three men could live where
one lives now, and there would be no further
need Of keeping up large herds of cattle and
sheep. l am not sufficiently utopian to be-
heye that mankind generally will ever
accept these principles
Again, 1t has been asserted that our pres
ent methods of cultivation are capable of
vast Improvement; that the earth might be
MADE TO yield much larger harvests than it
Yields now; and that population might thus
De permitted TO increase without CORE
Spondingly increasing the cultivated areas.
Ihs Is no doubt true as respects many
countries, but it is hardly true OF the world
at large. Making all reasonable allowance,
however, for these suggestions, l take as
basis for my estimate the standard of life,
such as we find it existing in various cli-
mates and among various peoples. Upon
this basis l calculate that the fertile re-
glous" would be aole TO support 207 human
beings TO the square mile, the present mean
population of those regions.
The "steppes" with their large tracts of
land capable Of cultivation, l believe to be
capable of supporting ten inhabitants to the
square mile. while the deserts would be
July peopled if they had even one inhabit-
ant to a square milo.
do not take into consideration the col
onlzation of tropical regions by Europeans,
because am constrained to maintain that
the tropical regions are no field for Euro
pean emigrants, and because it is not neces-
sary that the consumer Of food should live
III the country which produces it.
from all these considerations / assume
TINS world OF ours, If brought fully into Gull
ovation, can supply 1894. 100000 human
beings with food and other necessary pro-
ducts Of the vegetable kingdom.
THE INCREASE OF POPULATION.
On this poiut not only are our statistics
Sul very incomplete, but conditions, social
Ut Otherwise, may arise which would mate
rally Affect the present movement OF the
population. Weighing all the data to be
had, and carefully considering all the
Gauses which are at all likely to give an
Impetus to the growth Of population or re-
tara 1t in the various quarters of the world,
assume that the increase in the course of a
ueSade will amount to per cent.
summarized, the results of my careful
estimates are as follows:
Increase in decade
Fr,or Per cent.
Europe. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s. :
-'''sss..........,- ,......,....... 10
NC.tt asia '.''s.-.-.- .s.............. 30
s,ortL 1AIherlcA ..,.ss................2 30
- AliorlCa' '.... .....,...., lib
"HOIe eartn. ......,................ 80. D
CONCLUSION.
accepting these figures as correct, II be-
oomes an easy matter to compute the in
V ,Lgse OF the population. By the close Of
d tus century the 1.46S,000,O00 who now
vel upon the earth will have increased to
'9 39o 0OO, 900; in the year 1850 there will be
-,oS5 OOO, 600; in the year 1000, 3426, 600, 900,
auu In the year 2072, or 1S2 years hence,
enere will be 5,979 100000. These estimates
aie not presented as prophecy. have
aleady limited at voluntary checks to the
sro"th of population which will come into
pay as civilization advances and the de-
ulauus FOR the comforts of this life shall be-
moro general. At all events, so far as we
are personally concerned, 1872 years Is long
period TO look forward to; but il we look
S Sack similar number of years ard remem-
uer That William III. and Marlborough
we're then still among us, we are bound to
Hg s,nlt that it is but a short period in the
Lifetime of q nation.