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course had been deformed or defective children, that there should be a duty on them to abstain."

How lacking also in scientific knowledge of the complexities of the act of coitus, and how inhumanly uncharitable are some of the Anglican Bishops, may be gathered from the reply to the Birth Rate Commission in cross-examination of their representative who said to the question, "Then, the end being secured by conception, would you say that intercourse was unlawful until it was for another conception!" A. "I disapprove entirely of intercourse if there is any other motive." And also from the fact that in their more recent Encyclical Letter the Bishops go so far as to class all scientific contraceptives as "incitements to vice"!^[1] This amazing paragraph should be quoted in full; it is (p. 45): "70. The Conference urges the importance of enlisting the help of all high-principled men and women, whatever be their religious beliefs, in co-operation with, or if necessary, in bringing pressure to bear upon, authorities both national and local, for