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to her lower creatures' except for a time and locally, but man 'Nature's Insurgent Son' is the only animal regularly and persistently increasing. 'Man can only deal with this difficulty, created by his own departure from Nature—to which he can never return—by thoroughly investigating the laws of breeding and heredity, and proceeding to apply a control to human multiplication based upon certain and indisputable knowledge" (p. 23).

The political, or national, objection which is often expressed in the newspapers is crudely conveyed by the statement "that birth control leads to 'racial suicide.'" It should be noted in passing that the phrase "race suicide" was first coined by Dr. Alsworth Ross, the famous Professor of Sociology in America, was taken up by President Theodore Roosevelt, and has since become a regular journalistic warcry. Recently, however, Professor Ross has repudiated the current interpretation of the idea, as the conditions are changed, and he now considers the unregulated birth rate the greatest menace^[1] of civilization.