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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 go’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 and in Country 
Date City | Country Date City | Country 
1821-30........ 3.04 | 34207 |IT000.. .o24: 26.15 | 25.56 
1830-40........ 29.14 | 31.72 ||1907........ 26.12 | 25.35 
1840-50........ 29:30 | 37.28 |ITQ08.... 0.25. 26.80 | 25.35 
1850-60........ 32.50 | 32.81 ||1909........ 25-71 | 25.54 
1860-70........ 32.95 | 31.19 |/IQIO........ 24.58 | 24.09 
1870-80........ 23:553) |  BOs8T WIOT Tees sess 4 23.83 | 24.05 
1880-90........ 31.07 | 28.65 ||1912........ 23.03 | 24.06 
I890-1900...... 27 OF} 27.16 MOTB ins ceces 22.85 | 23.45 
IQOO-IQI0...... 25.87 | 25.74 ||I9I4........ 21.63 | 23.33 
TOT siocess 2 20.16 | 22.13 
19TO.s sees 19.52 | 21.70 
