Pioneers of birth control in England and America / by Victor Robinson.

  • Victor Robinson
Date:
1919
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    1 at some future time will be looked on aghast.” In spite of pedagogic traditions, the neo-malthusian doctrines have penetrated academic circles—perhaps because pro¬ fessional salaries are meager—and from the foremost chairs in the country have come pronunciamentos for prevenception. Beginning with the great Lester F. Ward, who wrote most forcibly for the doctrine in his “Dynamic Sociology,” a host of pro¬ fessors have added to the bibliography of birth control. Warner Fite, the peripa¬ tetic who has taught philosophy and ethics in the leading universities of the north and south and east and west, has contrib¬ uted a pro-essay on “Birth Control and Biological Ethics.” Clifton F. Hodge, when professor of biology at Clark Uni¬ versity, declared that the first right that must be granted woman, in the name of a