Reading Comprehension (RC) | It is paradoxical that the old countries involve themselves in the mos

[align=justify][box_out][box_in] It is paradoxical that the old countries involve themselves in the most absurd complexities to prevent a shrinkage of their agricultural population and the new countries seem even more anxious to speed up the growth of the industrial population by artificial means. Much of this endeavor on the latter's part seems to be based on a rather naive fallacy of the post hoc ergo propter hoc variety: because historically the growth of wealth has regularly been accompanied by rapid industrialization,
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