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...duodecimal system learned that any protection existed. They asked their gossips, they told their gossips, what little information disseminated through the country. Women of the upper class learned fairly accurate data; their birth rates declined quickly. Women of the lower social levels received faulty and sometimes harmful instruction. A Malthusian League was formed...
...Malthusian leaders give six reasons to justify the doctrine. I will give as briefly as possible an argument or two under each heading, relying chiefly upon quotations from eminent authorities...
...Marxian remedy for poverty is a more equable distribution of the world's goods. But, the Neo-Malthusian replies, the least capable have the largest families. It is practicable, or even desirable, that under these conditions the capable should be penalized to support them? Let us give them measures by which they themselves can tend to relieve their poverty. The experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive...
...Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...
...following the trial and acquittal of one Annie Besant and one Charles Bradlaugh for distributing birth control literature, a Neo-Malthusian League was formed in London. A quarter of a century later, the first Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference was held in Paris, repeated at Liege, in 1901; The Hague, 1910; Dresden, 1911; London...