Note 1488 — XI THE REGULATION OF NUMBERS AMONG HISTORICAL RACES

These remarks also apply to those cases in which countries at times appear to be empty. Attention is, for example, sometimes drawn to the fact that England appears to have been an ‘empty’ country in the Middle Ages. The emptiness is only apparent. Relative to the available skill and all other relevant circumstances England was fully populated in the Middle Ages; the tendency was rather towards over- than under-population.