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most nationally productive channels. I donot think that these matters should be leftentirely to the chances of private judgmentand private profits, as they are at present.

My third example concerns Population.The time has already come when each countryneeds a considered national policy about whatsize of Population, whether larger or smallerthan at present or the same, is most expedient.And having settled this policy, we must takesteps to carry it into operation. The timemay arrive a little later when the communityas a whole must pay attention to the innatequality as well as to the mere numbers of itsfuture members.

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