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Nothing remained for the young surgeons of the future excepting to 

 acquire what was already known and to perfect their technic. Since 

 then we have had two whole new eras in surgery and the methods of 

 Baron Larre}^ are as rusty as the flintlock gun which hangs in the 

 museum over the aviator's gas bomb. 



The earh' Christians believed that the world would come to an 

 end' within the lifetime of people then living. New England Puritans 

 anticipated that the second coming of Christ would occur at New 

 Haven. All this sort of thing goes to show what we have to face 

 when dealing with a vertebrate animal which named itself Homo 

 sapiens instead of Sophos moros. 



Statisticians who tell us that the world is to become over-populated 

 belong in the class with the inventor of the flintlock gun and with 

 Baron Larrey. Almost all of them, however, unfortunately seem to 

 be men of distinction, outstanding from the common run of folks who 

 simply eat and stop thinking when the bill for a dinner and the 

 dinner itself are settled. 



Away back in the year 1798 Malthus tried to bolster up Adam 

 Smith and his Wealth of Nations with population deductions of his 

 own. The doctrines of Malthus, however, have never been operative 

 much to the distress of reasoners who still quote him and secretly 

 hope for the time when such forceful thinking at a target will hit 

 the bull's eye. 



From the Institute of Politics at Williamstown during the jiast 

 summer we heard a great deal about over-population. Count Cippico 

 seized convenient opportunity for bringing in a few political argu- 

 ments in the special interest of Italy. He employed the population 

 fulcrum for his lever. Professor East then applied his birth control 

 lever upon a similar fulcrum and the points of the two short arms 

 coming into conflict with each other caused sparks to fly. Neither 

 Count Cippico nor Professor East dealth with fundamentals. The 

 one was a special pleader in selfish politics, the other a special pleider 

 for a pet statistical theory. 



What Count Cippico might have said is this: "Ladies and Gentle- 

 men, I came all of the way here from Italy for the purpose of frankly 

 giving you genuine information. I am in the presence of an audience 

 that is familiar with the law of Von der Goltz. Emigration takes 



