"Then came the slow realization that the population dilemma was being caused not by some sudden increase in human fertility but by the unrelenting application of death control by public health physicians and medical missionaries throughout the world, with no concurrent effort being devoted to the other side of the equation."

"The challenge to all will be whether we can develop the will and discipline to accomplish this balance by voluntary means alone or whether society for its own health and preservation must impose involuntary restraints."

This book "can be read with profit by both novice and expert. It is my hope that it will provide youth with challenge and new purpose in abundance to substitute the goal of quality of life for quantity of life."

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This book is being used in several classrooms in the US, and is considered by many to still be ahead of its time.