Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of the population problem because inordinate stores of natural resources, available at a time when scientific discovery promoted rapid exploitation, have made us what one might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples...
...arguments of the ghostly advisors of the Church, both Catholic and Protestant, are four. Two are puerile; two show a woeful ignorance of the one text-book their profession requires. They say that birth control is "unnatural". Of course it is, like clothing and houses, like cooked food, like medicines, like all arts and sciences, like everything which distinguishes man from the lower animals, like marriage itself. More frequently still they quote the in- junction to Noah, "Be fruitful and multiply," given, according to tradition, when the people of the earth were eight in number. It is difficult...
...means used by uncivilized peoples to relieve overpopulation,--the natural means, one might say,--are abortion, infanticide, war, starvation, disease. They are not due solely to overpopulation and cannot be wholly abolished by birth control; but overpopulation is their chief cause, and birth control will do more toward eliminating them than any other one thing...
These arguments, brief as they are, ought, it seems to me, to show that conscious regulation of the birth rate is a highly ethical proposal. I shall say no more. If civilization advances, it will come. The forces on the other side are the forces of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. They are the same forces that caused the poor savage of the Polynesian wilds to die of fright because he ate the king's food unwittingly. Are we to be ruled forever by tabu
...found in Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading in energy. Biologists say the origin of species is due to changes in the formation of cells. In fact it is due to changes in types of proteins based on differences in environment.?Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, National Research Council...