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Without doubt the productivity of the soil can be
increased up to a certain limit. But only up to a
certain limit, and not continuously without end. For
a certain time it will be possible to compensate for
the increase of the German people without having
to think of hunger, by increasing the productivity of
our soil. But beside this, we must face the fact that
our demands on life ordinarily rise even more
rapidly than the number of the population. Man’s
requirements with regard to food and clothing
increase from year to year, and even now, for
example, stand in no relation to the requirements of
hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch04.html
Without doubt the productivity of the soil can be
increased up to a certain limit. But only up to a
certain limit, and not continuously without end. For
a certain time it will be possible to compensate for
the increase of the German people without having
to think of hunger, by increasing the productivity of
our soil. But beside this, we must face the fact that
our demands on life ordinarily rise even more
rapidly than the number of the population. Man’s
requirements with regard to food and clothing
increase from year to year, and even now, for
example, stand in no relation to the requirements of
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our ancestors, say a hundred years ago. It IS,
therefore, insane to believe that every rise in
production provides the basis for an increase in
population: no; this is true only up to a certain
degree, since at least a part of the increased
production of the soil is spent in satisfying the
increased needs of men. But even with the greatest
limitation on the one hand and the utmost industry
on the other, here again a limit will one day be
reached, created by the soil itself. With the utmost
toil it will not be possible to obtain any more from it,
and then, though postponed for a certain time,
catastrophe again manifests itself. First, there will
be hunger from time to time, when there is famine,
etc. As the population increases, this will happen
more and more often, so that finally it will only be
absent when rare years of great abundance fill the
granaries. But at length the time approaches when
even then it will not be possible to satisfy men's
needs, and hunger has become the eternal
companion of such a people. Then Nature must
help again and make a choice among those whom
she has chosen for life; but again man helps
himself; that is, he turns to artificial restriction of his
increase with all the above-indicated dire
consequences for race and species.
The objection may still be raised that this future will
face the whole of humanity in any case and that
consequently the individual nation can naturally not
avoid this fate.
At first glance this seems perfectly correct. Yet here
the following must be borne in mind:
Assuredly at a certain time the whole of humanity
will be compelled, in consequence of the
impossibility of making the fertility of the soil keep
pace with the continuous increase in population, to
halt the increase of the human race and either let
Nature again decide or, by self-help if possible,
create the necessary balance, though, to be sure, in
a more correct way than is done today. But then this
will strike all peoples, while today only those races
are stricken with such suffering which no longer
possess the force and strength to secure for
themselves the necessary territories in this world.
For as matters stand there are at the present time
on this earth immense areas of unused soil, only
waiting for the men to till them. But it is equally true
that Nature as such has not reserved this soil for the
future possession of any particular nation or race;
on the contrary, this soil exists for the people which
possesses the force to take it and the industry to
cultivate it.
Nature knows no political boundaries. First, she
puts living creatures on this globe and watches the
free play of forces. She then confers the master's
right on her favorite child, the strongest in courage
and industry.