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 35O . STANLEY JEVON$ the foregoing paragraph, if they are to be of use in legislation and economic development need to be brought into closer relation with the facts concerning the condition of the various peoples of the oart, and the known social and economic forces which are a prosen o have o concrete ideal his reason I characteristics moulding only an for each shall of the controlled evolution present state. My their abstract country or part tereof. try t sketch here the ideal may carry ho people from description 'will apply firs growth. We need end in view, but a or main population towards which their of all to western countries, and whether the ideal for India and China any way different. I shall attempt more important differences in the I shall afterwards discuss should be in indicat te to method necessary to reach the goal in these great countries of ancient but stagnant civilization. The ideal population will be highly advanced in its economic methods, applying capital and labor-saving ' devices upon a scale no yet realized even in America. Thus it will be wealthy, but the wealth will be moro evenly distributed than or Europe. This will the control education partly by industrial of industry. It is it is at be o! population combined with present in achieved in two impossible to America ways-- and partly by sistin regulation overestimate the attached t birth importance which will come to be control; and, by such aids as science can render, the eugenic ideal will be reached, that no children should be born that cannot properly be provided for either by their parents or the State. This will be achieved by the education of public opinion through Govern- ment-aided research and propaganda; and it will be unnecessary to apply compulsion except to a minority of recalcitrants--say, only ab(mt one per cent of the