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As is indicated in the last chapter, reputable public advocacy of the theory and practice of contraception in English-speaking countries had suffered eclipse after the set-back of the Bradlaugh trial and the incident of Dr. H. A. Allbutt in this country, and the pressure of the Comstock Law in America.

Nevertheless, a revolt from the outlook on sex which was current during the latter half of the last century, though not coincident with its close was contemporaneous with the rise of the modern attitude towards life. The pioneering endeavours to understand the general profundities of sex-life in modern conditions led by Havelock Ellis and Forel at the close of the nineteenth and early days of the twentieth century, stimulated some of the younger generation to consider life freed from early