NEW MALTHUSIANISM III 
the monthly review of the league of the Red Cross 
Societies, known as The World's Health, will appreciate 
the difficulty and also the possibility of helping the 
illiterates among mankind to attain to the necessary 
knowledge for their own and their children’s better- 
ment. On the other hand, Prof. Laky’s study of 
intellectual culture in Hungary shows how very diffi- 
cult effective work will be for many years to come.? 
The scourges of mankind can be greatly checked by 
intelligent popular response to suitable official action. 
Tuberculosis is on the decrease, and the action of such 
remedial agents as solar rays, ultra-violet light, and 
heat are making the outlook generally more hopeful. 
Venereal diseases are yielding, and the popular atti- 
tude thereto is more satisfactory. The overcoming of 
thyroid troubles, the prevention of diseases arising from 
malnutrition, the prevention of scoliosis by attention 
to school-conditions, a better psychological guidance 
in the matter of education, and similar things, are 
securing better originating conditions for the rising 
generations in many lands. Infantile life is being 
greatly helped, and in many countries the infantile 
death-rate has fallen in a remarkable way. So extra- 
ordinary has been progress in these directions that a 
world-conscience in regard to them is being developed, 
and already men are raising their ideals as to the proper 
normal demand for attention thereto. International 
conferences and correspondence between persons deeply 
interested in matters affecting these, and in similar 
questions touching the evolving of movements for the 
good of mankind, are among the things that tend to 
create the new order of things, an order which, one 
may hope, will make international adjustments of 
relations possible. These. too. are essential to such a 
1 « Etude sur le développement de la culture intellectuelle en Hongrie 
dans les temps récents” Désiré Laky, Revue d. J. Soc. Hongroise d. 
Szat., 1926, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1—~60.