Indian Journal of Economics January 1940

On the strength of the figures presented in the two Tables the paper ought therefore to agree with the statement in Enid Charles's Twilight of Parenthood to the effect that the population of India is " probably slowly increasing " instead of considering it to be " a serious underestimate of the trend of events " (p. [...] I India Part I Report (Delhi 1933 p. 30) to the effect that the danger of a shorage of food supply is not the most serious aspect of the question " and that the " point has not yet been reached at which the ability of the country to feed its occupants is seriously taxed." As for the Indian standard of living attention may be drawn first to the diversities of standard in other coutr [...] The majority of the workers of the world can be assumed to fall short of this ideal." " The problem of the nutrition of agricultural workers is even as regards the number of calories below an adequate level in view of the trying work these workers have to perform and the composition is too unilateral to ensure the mainteance of a good standard of health throughout life."" We may now call att [...] But in case the Rammohun standard be acceptable as describing somewhat the conditions of the people in the earlier years of the nineteenth century it is questionable if the conditions in the corresponding period of the twentieth century have worsened. [...] Alexander in contrasting the positions of Hume and Adam Smith as regards the basis of the moral sense points out that while in Hume moral sense arises from sympathy with the general effects of actions and character their tendency to the happiness of mankind or of particular persons " in Adam Smith the sympathy is attributed to the origin of the actions.