ABSTRACT
In the sixty-three years of the twentieth century which have so far gone by, drastic changes have occurred. One could not today use the language of 1900 in describing world population or politics. Some progress has been made away from the more patent kinds of inequality and toward a degree of respect for human rights over the last sixty-three years. In 1900 Europe had a larger proportion of the world population than it had ever had before, and probably more than it is likely to have again. The presently underdeveloped countries are beginning their industrialization at a density so much greater than that of Europe when it was in the same position that the role of population in their growth may be very different from its role in Europe. The fourfold increase of England during the nineteenth century began with a small population and ended up with one that was beyond the capacity of England to feed.
