Note 262-2 — Chapter III

It is an interesting thought of R. von Mokl, Polizeiwissenschaft, I, 130, that real over-population, when no one was willing to emigrate of his own accord, might be remedied by a species of emigration-conscription of young adults by the drawing of lots, the right of substitution, etc. The ancient Italians sometimes realized this idea by the ver sacrum. Similarly in many cases of Greek emigration, by the worship of Apollo:[TN 117] Compare W. H. Roscher, Apollon und Mars (1873), 82 ff.