THE STRIKE OF A SEX _THE BELLAMY LIBRARY.--No. 12_ THE STRIKE OF A SEX A Novel. BY GEORGE NOYES MILLER. (_Member of the Oneida Community)._ [Illustration] LONDON: WM. REEVES: 183, CHARING CROSS RD. W.C. Printed by the New Temple Press, Grant Road, Croydon. SPECIAL PREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION. An English edition of this celebrated American story seems called for by the great and increasing interest felt in the problem of property in the old and crowded countries of Europe. It is nearly a hundred years since Malthus expounded the true relation between poverty and the increase of the human race: and it is more than thirty years since Darwin, in his “Origin of Species,” showed that the Malthusian Law lies at the basis of all organic evolution. No further apology is needed for a tale which points to a discovery, already tested by experience, which claims to solve, at one and the same time, the Malthusian or population problem, the Darwinian or eugenic problem, the problem of social purity, and the problem of personal health in relation to sex. F. W. F. AUTHOR’S PREFACE. To tell the truth, I put forth this slight piece of literature in much fear and trembling. Not that I had any morbid dread of literary condemnation, or any solicitude about financial failure. My anxiety was solely in regard to the reception that my little book might meet from women. To my mind, there was no other judge: and I awaited her verdict in real suspense. But my suspense was happily short and in its relief, I think that I tasted something like the overpowering joy which the prisoner feels when he is declared to be innocent. The letters of gratitude which I have received and am receiving from noble women in two continents have fairly overwhelmed me and they have rewarded me a hundredfold. The whole world is plainly in travail to lift the primeval curse of brutalizing labour from man. But the just, at least, are beginning to perceive that the primeval curse must also be lifted from woman. When these long-borne curses are really lifted from man and woman--what then? The Garden of Eden! GEORGE NOYES MILLER. 188, WEST HOUSTON ST., N.Y. JAN., 1891. WOMAN’S FUTURE. Oppression with her leaden mein Nor there is seen, Nor can the wrinkled brow of Care Find entrance there. [Illustration] THE STRIKE OF A SEX. CHAPTER I.