This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...gonorrhoea, which is a great cause of sterility, spread; or that it might fall because husbands became more solicitous of their wives' health, and did not allow them to have children oftener than once in three years. The same numerical result thus flows from two causes--one mortal, venomous, vile, the other ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...gonorrhoea, which is a great cause of sterility, spread; or that it might fall because husbands became more solicitous of their wives' health, and did not allow them to have children oftener than once in three years. The same numerical result thus flows from two causes--one mortal, venomous, vile, the other vital, valuable, beautiful. This, the first illustration that occurs, might be indefinitely multiplied in order to show the complexity of the problem. Any Commission which sat upon it, having already made up its mind, would surely fail, foolishly and flagrantly. Judging by the anxious inquiries of editors and private correspondents, when the formation of the Commission was first announced, many seem to assume that a Commission which sits upon a declining birth-rate must have made up its mind already, and is in danger of ignoring various considerations which could easily be overlooked by the academic or cloistered moralist. This fear is unwarranted. Our express object is to obtain and co-ordinate knowledge. Our primary aim is thus definitely not moral. Morals are concerned with what should be, science with what is. The Commission may have ulterior moral and eugenic objects, and may be actuated by moral feeling, but it exists because the truth has been perceived that, whether or not what ought to be can be attained without reference to what is, at any rate no efficient means of establishing what ought to be can be devised unless we first know what is;--" where we are," and hence what course to follow to the goal. The Commission simply exists to learn, and, once that process begins, he may be learning best who least knows where he will end. It may be confidently said that the Commission as a whole has not made up its mind, and that no member of...
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