Le secours de chômage en Belgique pendant l'occupation Allemande

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Identifikator:: 1690007133

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-103422

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Mahaim, Ernest http://d-nb.info/gnd/116679514

Title:: Le secours de chômage en Belgique pendant l'occupation Allemande

Place of publication:: Paris

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: XII, 322 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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3 3 < 5 2 i 2 332 Ne) 1 nN @ MN & wo On Po on no oO ng 0 = el om = > [an] 0 0 - aN) Q No <> — 0 on - > ~~) NEW MALTHUSIANISM 113 future of the human race should be safeguarded 3 the mischief that such people perpetuate. sardonic and disinterested observer of the issues the earth might well smile at the interest taken ‘he breeding of its animal and bird stocks, colla- lly with the neglect of human progeny. ‘ Why orientation of genetics?” he might well ask. Is 1anity to take its chances without guidance, or are accumulations of a knowledge of heredity to be | in the interests of its difficult future? To what rankind to be devoted? Is it to be to ruthless romic aggrandisements with their frightful con- lences ; or is it to be to economic adjustments with ormal, steadier, and more friendly life? This is problem, and Malthus was one of the very few » had a clear vision of the great controlling factor. Tan can be for ever the victim of blind impulse and :goistic greed, or he can witness ameliorative action ed on true eugenics and a finer sense of the claims those who are to be. Is this all a fatuous and “ile dream, or is it a guiding aspiration? The last hundred and twenty-five years have seen the elopment of the great locomotive, of the enormous or, of the airship and aeroplane, of telegraphy, of »phony, and wireless communication. It has wit- sed a wonderful reduction of the menaces to the «innings of human life. It has been characterised an enormous increase in the average length of life all born, the expectation of life at birth. In stralia in one-third of a century the death-rate for first year of life fell to 46 per cent. of what it 5. At the age of minimum mortality, 11 years and months, it fell to 59 per cent. of its original value ; every age up to 86 it has witnessed improvement. ese are amazing advances. But they mean that Man ries new responsibilities, and that there are certain sequences which involve international adjustments. ir rd : r + 5 . 0 p54 wip 3 ? n N © = >» oo 0 oD ’~

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