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CONTRACEPTION.

CHAPTER I.
The Problem To-day.

THE community in a beehive deals with its population problems according to the needs of the varying seasons, and in ways calculated to yield results ensuring the well-being of the hive regardless of the lives of individuals. In the spring populations are hastened into existence; in the autumn individuals once carefully reared are ruthlessly slaughtered.

The human community, guided by less clear and logical instincts, does not so definitely correlate its racial activities with the changes in its circumstances. Nevertheless, although it be unconsciously, the general drift and trend of events does, to some extent, control the production of human beings although such control is so ill-adjusted to the circumstances that many individuals suffer acutely and needlessly. The victims

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