At what figure do the best authorities estimate the population of the Chinese Empire?"
"One extreme authority estimates the population as considerably over 400millions. Another extreme authority estimates below 300 millions; but the most moderate say 380 millions."
What is the rate of increase "Not having reliable statistics, we can only estimate again. The best authorities say the population of China is the same as it was fifty-years ago. In other words, that the Chinese civilisation his reached the limit of its capacity to support its people; which, as compared with the rate of increase in Tadia, means that the awful number of three millions perish annually
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