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and hasty marriages. If the war is of extended duration, 

 birth-rates will decline. After the war they will again rise. 

 However, like the increased birth-rate at the start of the 

 war, this too will be temporary. War creates a surplus of 

 females and a shortage of males. In the long run the effect 

 of war is a decrease in the birth-rate. 



When the war and its aftermath are over and when man 

 stops wasting food and gets back to producing it, there will 

 be a more abundant, nutritious, and appetizing diet for 

 those who are left. But, as Jane Ace says, they must take the 

 "bitter with the better." Their cup will overrun with the 

 "better/' but they cannot obliterate the "bitter" that loss 

 of those who were ridden down by the Four Horsemen, Con- 

 quest, Plague, Famine, and Death. 



