By Margaret Sanger
Contraception, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of basic value today. i don't understand how some distance one is justified in calling it the pivot or the corner-stone of a revolutionary civilization. those phrases contain a feedback of metaphors which may take us distant from the query in hand. contraception is not any new factor in human event, and it's been practised in societies of the main quite a few kinds and fortunes. yet there will be no doubt that this present day it's a try out factor among largely assorted interpretations of the note civilization, and of what's solid in lifestyles and behavior. the best way women and men variety themselves during this controversy is extra easily and without delay indicative in their basic highbrow caliber than the other unmarried indication. i don't desire to suggest by way of this that the folks who oppose are roughly highbrow than the folk who recommend contraception, yet basically that they have got essentially contrasted basic ideas,—that, mentally, they're diversified. extremely simple, very advanced, very boring and intensely remarkable individuals could be present in both camp, yet all these in both camp have yes attitudes in universal which they proportion with each other, and don't proportion with these within the different camp.
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After the children have left for school, 44 PIVOT OF CIVILIZATION the overworked mother again tries to sleep, though the small son bothers her a great deal. Besides, she must clean the house, wash, iron, mend, sew and prepare the midday meal. She tries to snatch a little sleep in the afternoon, but explains: "When you got big family, all time work. " B y five, this mother must get the family's supper ready, and dress for the night's work, which begins at seven. The investigator further reports: "The next day was a holiday, and for a diversion, Mrs.
In this letter we asked the following questions:— 1. Is over-population a menace to the peace of the world? 2. Would the legal dissemination of scientific Birth Control information, through the medium of clinics by the medical profession, be the most logical method of checking the problem of over-population? 20 P I V O T OF C I V I L I Z A T I O N 3. Would knowledge of Birth Control change the moral attitude of men and women toward the marriage bond, or lower the moral standards of the youth of the country?
It is not without significance that the moron and the imbecile set the pace in living up to this teaching, and that the intellectuals, the educators, the archbishops, bishops, priests, who are most insistent on it, are the staunchest adherents in their own lives of celibacy and 18 P I V O T OF C I V I L I Z A T I O N non-fertility. It is time to point out to the champions of unceasing and indiscriminate fertility the results of their teaching. One of the greatest difficulties in giving to the public a book of this type is the impossibility of keeping pace with the events and changes of a movement that is now, throughout the world, striking root and growing.