, they will unafraid enjoy life to
the utmost. Women will for the first time in the unhappy history of
this globe establish a true equilibrium and "balance of power" in the
relation of the sexes. The old antagonism will have disappeared, the old
ill-concealed warfare between men and women. For the men themselves will
comprehend that in this cultivation of the human garden they will be
rewarded a thousand times. Interest in the vague sentimental fantasies
of extra-mundane existence, in pathological or hysterical flights from
the realities of our earthliness, will have through atrophy disappeared,
for in that dawn men and women will have come to the realization,
already suggested, that here close at hand is our paradise, our
everlasting abode, our Heaven and our eternity. Not by leaving it and
our essential humanity behind us, nor by sighing to be anything but what
we are, shall we ever become ennobled or immortal. Not for woman only,
but for all of humanity is this the field where we must seek the secret
of eternal life.

(1) Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume
XV.

(2) Conklin, The Direction of Human Evolution. "When it is
remembered that mental capacity is inherited, that parents
of low intelligence generally produce children of low
intelligence, and that on the average they have more
children than persons of high intelligence, and furthermore,
when we consider that the intellectual capacity or `mental
age' can be changed very little by education, we are in a
position to appreciate the very serious condition which
confronts us as a nation." p. 108.

APPENDIX

PRINCIPLES AND AIMS OF THE AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE

PRINCIPLES:

The complex problems now confronting America as the result of the
practice of reckless procreation are fast threatening to grow beyond
human control.

Everywhere we see poverty and large families going hand in hand. Those
least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly. People who
cannot support their own offspring are encouraged by Church and State to
produce large families. Many of the children thus begotten are diseased
or feeble-minded; many become criminals. The burden of supporting these
unwanted types has to be bourne by the healthy elements of the nation.
Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are
diverted to the maintenance of those who should ne