Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London


The real danger lay in the fecundity of her loins, and it was in
1970 that the first cry of alarm was raised. For some time all
territories adjacent to China had been grumbling at Chinese
immigration; but now it suddenly came home to the world that
China's population was 500,000,000. She had increased by a hundred
millions since her awakening. Burchaldter called attention to the
fact that there were more Chinese in existence than white-skinned
people. He performed a simple sum in arithmetic. He added
together the populations of the United States, Canada, New Zealand,
Australia, South Africa, England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria,
European Russia, and all Scandinavia. The result was 495,000,000.
And the population of China overtopped this tremendous total by
5,000,000. Burchaldter's figures went round the world, and the
world shivered.

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