e women. There are also women
to whom pregnancy is a nine months' torture, and others to whom it is
nearly certain to prove fatal. Such a condition cannot be discovered before
marriage--The detestable crime of abortion is appallingly rife in our day.
It is abroad in our land to an extent which would have shocked the
dissolute women of pagan Rome--This wholesale, fashionable murder, how are
we to stop it? Hundreds of vile men and women in our large cities subsist
by this slaughter of the innocent."

12. REV. H. R. HAWEIS.--"Until it is thought a disgrace in every rank of
society, from top to bottom of social scale, to bring into the world more
children than you are able to provide for, the poor man's home, at least,
must often be a purgatory--his children dinnerless, his wife a
beggar--himself too often drunk--here, then, are the real remedies: first,
control the family growth according to the family means of support."

13. MONTAGUE COOKSON.--"The limitation of the number of the family--is as
much the duty of married persons as the observance of chastity is the duty
of those that are unmarried."

14. JOHN STUART MILL.--"Every one has aright to live. We will suppose this
granted. But no one has a right to bring children into life to be supported
by other people. Whoever means to stand upon the first of these rights must
renounce all pretension to the last. Little improvement can be expected in
morality until the production of a large family is regarded in the same
light as drunkenness or any other physical excess."

15. DR. T. D. NICHOLLS.--"In the present social state, men and women should
refrain from having children unless they see a reasonable prospect of
giving them suitable nurture and education."

16. REV. M. J. SAVAGE.--"Some means ought to be provided for checking the
birth of sickly children."

17. DR. STOCKHAM.--"Thoughtful minds must acknowledge the great wrong done
when children are begotten under adverse conditions. Women must learn the
laws of life so as to protect themselves, and not be the means of bringing
sin-cursed, diseased children into the world. The remedy is in the
prevention of pregnancy, not in producing abortion."

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Small Families and the Improvement of the Race.

1. MARRIED PEOPLE MUST DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES.--It is the fashion of those
who marry nowadays to have few children, often none. Of course this is a
matter which married peopl