The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

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Identifikator:: 1775636852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-164018

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Author:: Knibbs, George Handley http://d-nb.info/gnd/1045010944

Title:: The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Ernest Benn Limited

Year of publication:: (1928)

Scope:: 131 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. The Outlook

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CHAPTER 1 THE OUTLOOK Waar lieth on the knees of the gods no man knoweth, thus ordinarily men do not concern themselves with anything but the immediate future. All else they leave to “Providence.” The philosophic historian, however, examining the perspectives of the world’s history, finds himself compelled to recognise that, as a matter of fact, coming events do “ cast their shadows before them.” There are, too, signs of the times which, if we are able to read them, may make the future the better for us. A study of the early traces of Man, and of general geology in connection therewith, shows that he has been a denizen of this earth for at least hundreds of thousands of years, possibly even for millions of years. Human history, however, goes back at the most only something like ten thousand years, and for the first half of this period it is very meagre indeed. For this reason Man’s occupancy of the world’s surface is not as in- formative as one might wish it to be. Among other things the character of the fluctuations of his numbers, of his earlier aggregations and their developments, of the nature of the civilisations to which he has attained, is but very imperfectly known.. The monuments of human effort in Babylonia and Egypt, in China and India, in Peru and Mexico, at least inform us, however, that great changes in the intensity of his corporate life have occurred in the past.

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