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THE TREND OF THE RACE 



hardly justified "in making the generalization that city marriages 

 are less fruitful than country marriages. Indeed, the opposite is 

 true in several countries, if the great cities be excepted." Most 

 of the data appealed to in support of this statement are derived 

 from statistics in the 90's and previously. Weber's work was 

 published in 1899, and whatever may have been the relations at 

 that time it is evident that urban birth rates have since fallen 

 more rapidly than the rural. Sweden which at the time Weber 

 wrote had a higher birth rate in the city than in the country has 

 now just the reverse. This is shown in the following table of the 

 birth rate in the cities and rural districts of that country: 



Births per 1,000 in Sweden 

 In City mid in Country 



Date 



1821-30. . 

 1830-40. . 

 1840-50. . 

 1850-60. . 

 1860-70. . 

 1870-80. . 

 1880-90. . 

 1890-1900 

 1900-1910 



Date 



1906. 

 1907. 

 1908, 

 1909, 

 1910. 

 1911. 

 1912, 



I9I3' 

 1914, 



1915 

 1916 



56 



35 

 35 

 54 

 09 



05 

 06 



45 



13 



70 



