Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2798

Penciling on small notepad paper. Found attached to Items 1019 and 1020, the first of which is dated 1939, so that this might be of that same year.

1939?

Optimum Qualitative Condition

For a given quantity of poplation energy, W, the condition of highest quality, active and creative capacity, is when D, average duration, is maximum and N, number of individuals is minimum.

Formula for quantitativemeasurement of population as life energy:

/On reverse side, marked (2):/

Such a society, making life literally more abundant for its members by lengthening their years, would be in a condition precisely reverse from that of a population dominated by an absolute state that, imposing power upon it, restricts creative energy and causes numbers to increase at the expense of duration of its human lives.