"A dirty filthy book" : the writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial with the definitive texts of Fruits of philosophy, by Charles Knowlton, The law of population, by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the law of population, by Annie Besant / by S. Chandrasekhar.

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