Section 4. AN INSULT TO TRUE WOMANHOOD Section 5. A DEGRADATION OF THE FEMALE SEX Section 6. SPECIALLY HURTFUL TO THE POOR (a) Affecting the Young (b) Exposing the Poor to Experiment (c) Tending towards the Servile State Section 7. A MENACE TO THE NATION (a) There is a Limit to lowering the Death-rate (b) Birth Control tends to extinguish the Birth-rate (c) A Danger to the Empire (d) The Dangers of Small Families Section 8. THE PLOT AGAINST CHRISTENDOM CHAPTER VIII THE RELIGIOUS ARGUMENT AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL Section 1. AN OFFENCE AGAINST THE LAW OF NATURE Section 2. REFLECTED IN THE NORMAL CONSCIENCE Section 3. EXPRESSED IN THE SCIENCE OF ETHICS Section 4. BIRTH CONTROL CONDEMNED BY PROTESTANT CHURCHES APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII A NEO-MALTHUSIAN ATTACK ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPTER IX THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON BIRTH CONTROL Section 1. A FALSE VIEW OF HER DOCTRINE Section 2. THE ESSENCE AND PURPOSE OF MARRIAGE Section 3. ARTIFICIAL STERILITY WHOLLY CONDEMNED Section 4. THE ONLY LAWFUL METHOD OF BIRTH CONTROL Section 5. CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY BIRTH CONTROL CHAPTER I THE ESSENTIAL FALLACIES OF MALTHUSIAN TEACHING Section 1. MALTHUS AND THE NEO-MALTHUSIANS Birth control, in the sense of the prevention of pregnancy by chemical, mechanical, or other artificial means, is being widely advocated as a sure method of lessening poverty and of increasing the physical and mental health of the nation. It is, therefore, advisable to examine these claims and the grounds on which they are based. The following investigation will prove that the propaganda throughout Western Europe and America in favour of artificial birth control is based on a mere assumption, bolstered up by economic and statistical fallacies; that Malthusian teaching is contrary to reason and to fact; that Neo-Malthusian practices are disastrous alike to nations and to individuals; and that those practices are in themselves an offence against the Law of Nature, whereby the Divine Will is expressed in creation. (a) _Malthus_