The unsolved riddle of social justice / by Stephen Leacock.

  • Stephen Leacock
Date:
1920
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Credit: The unsolved riddle of social justice / by Stephen Leacock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    geometrical ratio. Tlie liuman racej if favoured hy environment, can easily double itself every twenty- five years. If it did this, the time must come, through sheer power of multiplication, when there would not be standing room for it on the globe. All of this is undeniable, but it is quite wide of the mark. It is time enough to cross a bridge when we come to it. The standing room ’’ problem is still removed from us by such uncounted genera- tions that we need give no thought to it. The physical resources of the globe are as yet only tapped, and not exhausted. We have done little more than scratch the surface. Because we are crowded here and there in the ant-hills of our cities, we dream that the world is full. Because, under our present system, we do not raise enough food for all, we fear that the food supply is running short. All this is pure fancy. Let anyone consider in his mind’s eye the enormous untouched assets still remaining for mankind in the vast spaces filled with the tangled forests of South America, or the exuberant fer- tility of equatorial Africa or the huge plains of Canada, Australia, Southern Siberia and the United States, as yet only thinly dotted with human settle- ment. There is no need to draw up an anxious balance-sheet of our assets. There is still an un-
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