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THE UTILITY OF COMMON STATISTICS 23
part on the stage of the world's political history. And
this sense of being dwarfed will probably increase in
time. In this country, at any rate, we cannot but feel
greatly attracted by the United States. Because of
the magnitude of that country, the European continent
is less to us-our relations are elsewhere.
I t is in connection, however, with our own home
problems of population that the increase of the United
States is most interesting to us. The increase is partly
at 03r expense, and at that of the other European
nations. If the United States or some other new
country had not received our emigrants, it is quite
clear that our whole history would have been different
from what it is. We should either have had in our
midst the people who emigrated, and their descendants,
straining the resources of our soil and mines and
capital, or the pressure upon these resources would
have checked in various ways the growth of the popu-
lation itself, so that probably at this moment, but for
the new countries, more people would now be living
in the United Kingdom than there are, and larger
numbers of the population would be paupers, or on the
verge of pauperism. The actual numbers we have lost
altogether, and specially to the United States, have
been:

To United States. Altogether.
Before 1820 • 50,000 12 3,000
18z0'30 100,000 247,000
'3°'4 0 308,000 7°3,000
'4°'5 0 • 1,094,000 1,684,000
'St·5a'. 511,000 7°4,000
'53- 60 805,000 1,312,000
'6°'7 0
'7 0 • 8 .° . 1,132,000 1,57 1 ,000
1,087,000
1,678,000
Total 5,087,000 8,022,000

, Previous to this date the figures include foreigners.