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CHAPTER FIVE

test for several months, and I have a very beautiful statement from the lady promoter in which she says—'I have never seen anything but good come from this training.' The claim is made that "during ten years we had but two accidental children born to a family of three hundred members."

Comment.—The method does not appear to be one to recommend, except for special cases. The whole idea appears to me one about which scientific opinion should be cautiously reserved, yet alert and inquiring.

(8) Seasonal Fertility.

Although among primitive races there are peoples to be found among whom a regular seasonal exhibition of sex activity still exists, as, for instance, the Esquimaux, some native tribes in Siam, and so on (see Marshall,[1] and various works on Anthropology), yet among the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races which compose Western European peoples none remain so definitely seasonal in their potentialities for fertilization as to possess an annual "safe period," although there is a certain amount of evidence that the spring months of May and

  1. ↑ F. G. A. Marshall (1910): "The Physiology of Reproduction." Pp. xvii, 706. See p. 70.

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