RADIANT MOTHERHOOD _BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ SCIENTIFIC. The Cretaceous Flora, Part I. Illustrated. Published by the Trustees of the British Museum. 12s. net. The Cretaceous Flora, Part II. Illustrated. Published by the Trustees of the British Museum. £1 1s. net. Ancient Plants. Illustrated. Published by Blackie. 4s. 6d. net. The Study of Plant Life. 2nd Edition. Illustrated. Published by Blackie. 3s. 6d. net. Married Love. 8th Edition. Published by Putnam. 6s. net. Wise Parenthood. 6th Edition. Published by Putnam. 3s. 6d. net. A Letter to Working Mothers. Published by the Author. 6d. net. TRAVEL. A Journal from Japan. Published by Blackie. 7s. 6d. net. LITERARY. Man, Other Poems and a Preface. Published by Heinemann. 3s. 6d. net. Conquest, a Three-Act Play. Published by French. 1s. net. Gold in the Wood and The Race. Two Plays. Published by Fifield. 2s. net. With Prof J. Sakurai, Plays of old Japan, The Nō. Published by Heinemann. 5s. net. The author’s vivid and imaginative sympathy has really enabled her, in some degree, to communicate the incommunicable. ATHENÆUM. Radiant Motherhood A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future By Marie Carmichael Stopes Doctor of Science, London; Doctor of Philosophy, Munich; Fellow of University College, London; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Linnean Society, London LONDON G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, LTD. TORONTO THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED _First published August 9, 1920_ _Copyright; translations and all other rights reserved by the Author. Copyright in U.S.A._ _Dedicated to young husbands and all who are creating the future_ CONTENTS