Birth Control
Subtitle: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians
Publisher: Harding & More
Published: 1922
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I; title: THE ESSENTIAL FALLACIES OF MALTHUSIAN TEACHING; title: $ I. MALTHUS AND THE NEO-MALTHUSIANS 1; title: (a) Malthus 1; title: (b) The Neo-Malthusians 3; title: $ 2. TEACHING BASED ON FALSE PREMISES 4; title: (a) That Population progresses geometrically 4; title: (b) That Food Supply progresses arithmetically 4; title: (c) That Overpopulation is the cause of Poverty and Disease 5; title: $ 3. THE ROOT FALLACY 6; title: $ 4. WHAT OVERPOPULATION MEANS 7; title: § 5. NO EVIDENCE OF OVERPOPULATION 9; title: (a) In the Suez Canal Zone 10; title: (b) In "Closed Countries" like Japan 11; title: § 6. A NATURAL LAW CHECKING FERTILITY 12; title: § 7. OVERPOPULATION IN THE FUTURE 13; title: § 8. HOW NATIONS HAVE PERISHED 14; title: § 9. PHYSICAL CATASTROPHES 15; title: (a) Disease 15; title: (b) War 18; title: § 1O. MORAL CATASTROPHES 20; title: CHAPTER II; title: THE FALSE DEDUCTIONS CONCERNING POVERTY; title: § 1. BIRTH-RATE AND POVERTY 23; title: (a) Famines 24; title: (b) Abundance 24; title: (c) Wages 26; title: § 2 POVERTY IN GREAT BRITAIN DUE TO OTHER CAUSES 27; title: (a) Under-development 27; title: (b) Severance of the Inhabitants from the Soil 28; title: $ 3. CAUSES OF POVERTY IN INDIA 30; title: § 4. POVERTY IN FACT CAUSES A HIGH BIRTH-RATE 31; title: (a) Malthusianism is an attack; title: on the Poor 32; title: (b) A Hindrance to Reform 33; title: (c) A Quack Remedy for Poverty 34; title: § 5. POVERTY AND CIVILISATION 36; title: CHAPTER III; title: HIGH BIRTH-RATES NOT THE CAUSE OF HIGH DEATH-RATES; title: § 1. POVERTY AS NOW EXISTING 37; title: § 2 HIGH BIRTH-RATE NOT THE CAUSE OF HIGH DEATH-RATE : PROVED FROM STATISTICS 38; title: (a) Canada 39; title: (b) Connaught 39; title: § 3. A LOW BIRTH-RATE NO GUARANTEE OF A LOW DEATH-RATE 40; title: § 4. VITAL STATISTICS OF FRANCE 41; title: § 5. COEFFICIENTS OF CORRELATION 43; title: CHAPTER IV; title: HOW RELIGION AFFECTS THE BIRTH-RATE; title: § 1. FRENCH STATISTICS MISINTERPRETED BY MALTHUSIANS 47; title: § 2 EVIDENCE FROM HOLLAND 52; title: § 3. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 53; title: $ 4. THE SAME RESULTS IN ENGLAND 58; title: CHAPTER V; title: IS THERE A NATURAL LAW REGULATING THE PROPORTION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS?; title: $ 1. THE THEORY OF THOMAS DOUBLEDAY REVIVED 65; title: § 2 MR. PELL'S GENERALISATIONS CRITICISED 66; title: $ 3. THE LAW OF DECLINE 69; title: $4. ILLUSTRATED FROM GREEK HISTORY 70; title: (a) Moral Catastrophe in Ancient Greece 70; title: (b) The Physical Catastrophe induced by Selfishness 72; title: CHAPTER VI; title: THE FALLING BIRTH-RATE IN ENGLAND: ITS CAUSES; title: § 1. NOT, AS MALTHUSIAN S ASSERT, DUE MAINLY TO CONTRACEPTIVES 75; title: $ 2 DECLINE IN FERTILITY DUE TO SOME NATURAL LAW 77; title: § 3. AND TO CHARACTER OF OCCUPATION 80; title: $ 4. AGGRAVATED DOUBTLESS BY MALTHUSIANISM 81; title: CHAPTER VII; title: THE EVILS OF ARTIFICIAL BIRTH CONTROL; title: § 1. NOT A PHYSICAL BENEFIT 83; title: A Cause of Sterility 83; title: Neuroses 84; title: Fibroid Tumours 84; title: § 2. A SCANDALOUS SUGGESTION 88; title: § 3. A CAUSE OF UNHAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE 93; title: § 4. AN INSULT TO TRUE WOMANHOOD 95; title: § 5. A DEGRADATION OF THE FEMALE SEX 97; title: § 6. SPECIALLY HURTFUL TO THE POOR 100; title: (a) Affecting the Young 100; title: (b) Exposing the Poor to Experiment 101; title: (c) Tending towards the Servile State 102; title: § 7. A MENACE TO THE NATION 103; title: (a) There is a Limit to lowering the Death-rate 103; title: (b) Birth Control tends to extinguish the Birth-rate 105; title: (c) A Danger to the Empire 106; title: (d) The Dangers of Small Families 115; title: § 8. THE PLOT AGAINST CHRISTENDOM 118; title: CHAPTER VIII; title: THE RELIGIOUS ARGUMENT AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL; title: § 1. AN OFFENCE AGAINST THE LAW OF NATURE 123; title: § 2. REFLECTED IN THE NORMAL CONSCIENCE 125; title: § 3. EXPRESSED IN THE SCIENCE OF ETHICS 126; title: § 4. BIRTH CONTROL CONDEMNED BY PROTESTANT CHURCHES 127; title: APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII; title: A NEO-MALTHUSIAN ATTACK ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 131; title: CHAPTER IX; title: THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON BIRTH CONTROL; title: § 1. A FALSE VIEW OF HER DOCTRINE 148; title: § 2. THE ESSENCE AND PURPOSE OF MARRIAGE 149; title: § 3. ARTIFICIAL STERILITY WHOLLY CONDEMNED 150; title: § 4. THE ONLY LAWFUL METHOD OF BIRTH CONTROL 152; title: § 5. CONCLUSION 155; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY 157