"'...the Planet has taken all precautions against crowds for the past hundred years. What is our total population today? Six hundred million, we hope; five hundred, we think; but - but if next year's census shows more than four hundred and fifty, I myself will eat all the extra little babies. We have cut the birth-rate out - right out! For a long time we have said to Almighty God, "Thank You, Sir, but we do not much like Your game of life, so we will not play. " ' "
- Dragomiroff, in Rudyard Kipling's As Easy as ABC