These are the fundamental reasons those of us recognize who do not wish that the ignorant and vicious should be taught to act contrary to the natural law. Furthermore, there is always another way out of the difficulties, mostly imaginary, the birth control advocates conjure up. Granting that all the difficulties from multiple births are real, no end justifies essentially evil means, and a subversion of the natural law is always essentially evil. War, homicide, and like acts are not always evil; under certain circumstances both war and homicide may be holy deeds; but to act contrary to nature is never justifiable in any condition. If I owe a man a large sum of money it may be to the advantage of myself or my children that this man be removed, but that good end does not justify murder; no more does any condition of poverty justify a contraceptive act against nature, especially when such an act is never the sole means of evasion. We must protect the married state, but in America we are destroying it. Human society had its origin in marriage, and it depends on marriage for its preservation, but our American divorce laws have made marriage a travesty. In New York alone in 1916 there were 74,893 women divorced, nearly twenty-eight times as many as were divorced in England and Wales in that year, and over forty-nine per cent. of these women were childless, very significantly. Probably ninety-five per cent. of the childless women had used contraceptive methods, yet there are few forces better able to hold the marriage knot tied as it should be tied than a child's fingers. In England and Wales, too, in 1916, forty per cent. of the divorced couples were also birth controllers, at least they had no children. Pennsylvania is much more shameless than New York in granting divorces for no reason at all.