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greatly diminished and at the same time the problem of over 
population has not become acute. If we learn from the expe- 
rience of these countries, we can find means for compensating 
the disturbance that will follow from a falling death rate. In 
sively resisted. In the countries which have dealt successfully 
with the evils of epidemic disease the results have been attained 
by the willing co-operation of educated people, and the conse- 
quence has been that they themselves have arranged for main- 
taining the balance between food supply and population, by 
increasing the productiveness of the soil, by opening up new 
lands to receive the surplus population, by later marriages and 
other means. 
By the spread of a rational system of education the 
people of India will not only learn to prevent the senseless 
waste that comes from preventable disease and death: they 
people will have the knowledge that will enable them to deal 
with the problem for themselves. What is obviously needed 1s 
the spread of a form of education which will enable the people 
to become masters of their fates to much greater extent than. 
is the case at present. : 
We cannot impose on the people of India a solution of the 
terrible problems that they have to face: what we can do is to 
give them the education that will show them the way out of 
others to decide what other changes should be made in the 
educational system of India but I strongly insist that it should 
taught how to avoid preventable disease and preventable death. 
The first step is to teach the teachers themselves, and to instruct 
them in the methods of conveying the knowledge to their 
pupils in a simple and_ intelligible manner. The great 
organisation of the educational department exists ready to 
difficult, they have acquired such an outlook on life that the 
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teachings of medical science are & foreign language to them. 
