the Eugenists themselves as
the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.(7)

(1) Galton. Essays in Eugenics, p. 43.

(2) Eugenics Review, Vol. XIII, p. 349.

(3) Cf. Martin, The Behavior of Crowds, p. 6.

(4) Cf. Democracy and the Human Equation. E. P. Dutton &
Co., 1921.

(5) Cf. The Salvaging of Civilization.

(6) Common Sense in Racial Problems. By W. Bateson, M. A.
A., F. R. S.

(7) Among these are Dean W. R. Inge, Professor J. Arthur
Thomson, Dr. Havelock Ellis, Professor William Bateson,
Major Leonard Darwin and Miss Norah March.

CHAPTER IX: A Moral Necessity

I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And "Thou shalt not" writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.

--William Blake

Orthodox opposition to Birth Control is formulated in the official
protest of the National Council of Catholic Women against the resolution
passed by the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs which favored
the removal of all obstacles to the spread of information regarding
practical methods of Birth Control. The Catholic statement completely
embodies traditional opposition to Birth Control. It affords a striking
contrast by which we may clarify and justify the ethical necessity for
this new instrument of civilization as the most effective basis for
practical and scientific morality. "The authorities at Rome have again
and again declared that all positive methods of this nature are immoral
and forbidden," states the National Council of Catholic Women. "There
is no question of the lawfulness of birth restriction through abstinence
from the relations which result in conception. The immorality of Birth
Control as it is practised and commonly understood, consists in the
evils of the particular method employed. These are all contrary to the
moral law because they are unnatural, being a perversion of a natural
function. Human faculties are used i