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of land tenure or systems of cultivation or 

 property, is shown by the recognised fact 

 that this increase is universal all the world 

 over. The facts have recently been forcibly 

 stated in the able inaugural address of 

 Major Craigie to the Royal Statistical 

 Society (Journal, Dec., 1902). 



In France and in Germany an urban 

 district is any town with 2,000 persons and 

 upwards. With this definition, in Germany 

 in the last thirty years the urban districts 

 have increased by 105 per cent., whilst the 

 rural have decreased by 2 per cent. In 

 France, during the last thirty years, the 

 urban population has increased by 34 per 

 cent., whilst the rural has decreased by 

 nearly 5 per cent, (lit., 4. 8). 



The proportionate increases are still more 

 remarkable. In Germany, about 1870, only 

 36 per cent, were classed as urban, but in 

 1900 this figure had risen to 54 per cent. 



