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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: crowded and hurried and underfed and undereducated. And as
for liking their lives, they need never have had the chance."
"How many people are there in the world?" she asked abruptly.
"I don't know. Twelve hundred, fifteen hundred millions
perhaps."
"And in your world?"
"I'd have two hundred and fifty millions, let us say. At
most. It would be quite enough for this little planet, for a
time, at any rate. Don't you think so, doctor?"
"I don't know," said Dr. Martineau. "Oddly enough, I have
never thought about that question before. At least, not from
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