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Before we can assign priorities, we must have a clear view of where our special brand of knowledge can be effective. This brings us back to a thought raised at the opening of this presentation:

are we ready to make priorities?

I doubt that we are. What we have been considering is all so new and of such potential significance that we should proceed on all those fronts where compelling scientific and humanitarian arguments can be brought to bear. The actual costs involved, compared with expenditures in other areas, are a pittance in relation to the ultimate possibilities.

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1,272

594

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935

a

Willcox, Studies in... (1940), p. 45.

Estimates for America have been divided between northern America
and Latin America by means of detailed figures presented ibid., pp. 37-44.

b

C

Carr-Saunders, World Population (1936), p. 42.

...

growth of world population
United Nations, Demographic Yearbook 1949-50 (1950), p. 10; and United Nations, "The past and future
United States, Canada, Alaska, St. Pierre and Miquelon,
.." (1951), Table II; the 1940 figures are unpublished estimates of the United Nations.
Central and South America and Caribbean Islands.

d

e

series have been adjusted so as to include the

Estimates for Asia and Europe in Willcox's and Carr-Saunders'
population of the Asiatic U.S.S.R. with that of Europe, rather than Asia.
mate estimates of the population of the Asiatic U.S.S.R. were used:
million; 1850, 8 million; 1900, 22 million.

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For this purpose, the following approxi1650, 3 million; 1750, 4 million; 1800, 5

includes northern America, Latin America, Europe and the Asiatic U.S.S.R., and Oceania.