ity, to answer the demand
for a scientific means by which and through which each human life may
be self-directed and self-controlled. The exponent of Birth Control, in
short, is convinced that social regeneration, no less than individual
regeneration, must come from within. Every potential parent, and
especially every potential mother, must be brought to an acute
realization of the primary and individual responsibility of bringing
children into this world. Not until the parents of this world are given
control over their reproductive faculties will it be possible to improve
the quality of the generations of the future, or even to maintain
civilization at its present level. Only when given intelligent mastery
of the procreative powers can the great mass of humanity be aroused to
a realization of responsibility of parenthood. We have come to the
conclusion, based on widespread investigation and experience, that
education for parenthood must be based upon the needs and demands of
the people themselves. An idealistic code of sexual ethics, imposed from
above, a set of rules devised by high-minded theorists who fail to take
into account the living conditions and desires of the masses, can never
be of the slightest value in effecting change in the customs of the
people. Systems so imposed in the past have revealed their woeful
inability to prevent the sexual and racial chaos into which the world
has drifted.

The universal demand for practical education in Birth Control is one
of the most hopeful signs that the masses themselves to-day possess
the divine spark of regeneration. It remains for the courageous and
the enlightened to answer this demand, to kindle the spark, to direct a
thorough education in sex hygiene based upon this intense interest.

Birth Control is thus the entering wedge for the educator. In answering
the needs of these thousands upon thousands of submerged mothers, it
is possible to use their interest as the foundation for education in
prophylaxis, hygiene and infant welfare. The potential mother can
then be shown that maternity need not be slavery but may be the most
effective avenue to self-development and self-realization. Upon this
basis only may we improve the quality of the race.

The lack of balance between the birth-rate of the "unfit" and the "fit,"
admittedly the greatest present menace to the civilization, can never be
rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these
two clas