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CONTRACEPTION

on the part of many of the more healthyminded ones, because the latter have not a sufficiently conscious attitude concerning the meaning and value of their own greater wholesomeness." "In the blurred and excited vision of such psycho-erotic morbidity, it was natural enough that no difference could be discovered between murder, abortion, and a physiologically and socially useful prevention of conception."

Have any Divine Laws been given in the past and incorporated by the Churches in their teaching which condemn scientific control of conception ? Clearly none. As scientific consideration of the problems involved clears the issues, it points the way to the use of reason in this, as in all other important social problems.

The Bishop of Birmingham, as Chairman of the second Birth Rate Commission, made several pronouncements in favour of a reasoned restraint on the procreation of children, particularly by parents unable to give the necessary health or environment to their offspring. In his excellent Preface to the volume of essays on all sides of this subject[1] he said of a wedded couple that

  1. ↑ In "The Control of Parenthood," by J. A. Thomson, L. Hill, W. R. Inge, H. Cox, M. Scharlieb, Rider Haggard, a. E. Garvie, F. B. Meyer and M. C. Stopes,

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