LIFE'S STRUGGLE
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW LONDON, June 7. “ The idea of leaving maternity to .the docile, domesticated type, of cow-like placidity, while intellectual women run the world, is mischievously non-biologi-cal,” declare Sir Arthur Thomson and Professor Patrick Geddes, in Life —two huge volumes which they have produced during 40 years’ collaboration. Referring to birth control, they declare: “Action thought over and resolved is never quite immoral. We are moving rapidly towards saturation-point in population, and must secure restriction of the size of the family in order to prevent the terrible struggle for existence that must ensue if increase continues at the present rate. “Eugenists must become a matrimonial agency, in fact, though not in name. What is the London social season —or what is any gathering of young people, for afternoon tea, or dance —but such an agency ? ”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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