10. Mrs. Fawcett.—"Nothing will permanently offset pauperism while the present reckless increase of population continues."
11. Dr. George Napheys.—"Having too many children unquestionably has its disastrous effects on both mother and children as known to every intelligent physician. Two-thirds of all cases of womb disease, says Dr. Tilt, are traceable to child-bearing in feeble women. There are also women to whom pregnancy is a nine months' torture, and others to whom it is nearly certain to prove fatal. Such a condition cannot be discovered before marriage—The detestable crime of abortion is appallingly rife in our day. It is abroad in our land to an extent which would have shocked the dissolute women of pagan Rome—This wholesale, fashionable murder, how are we to stop it? Hundreds of vile men and women in our large cities subsist by this slaughter of the innocent."
12. Rev. H.R. Haweis.—"Until it is thought a disgrace in every rank of society, from top to bottom of social scale, to bring into the world more children than you are able to provide for, the poor man's home, at least, must often be a purgatory—his children dinnerless, his wife a beggar—himself too often drunk—here, then, are the real remedies: first, control the family growth according to the family means of support."
13. Montague Cookson.—"The limitation of the n of the family—is as much the duty of married persons as the observance of chastity is the duty of those that are unmarried."
14. John Stuart Mill.—"Every one has aright to live. We will suppose this granted. But no one has a right to bring children into life to be supported by other people. Whoever means to stand upon the first of these rights must renounce all pretension to the last. Little improvement can be expected in morality until the production of a large family is regarded in the same light as drunkenness or any other physical excess."
15. Dr. T.D. Nicholls.—"In the present social state, men and women should refrain from having children unless they see a reasonable prospect of giving them suitable nurture and education."
16. Rev. M.J. Savage.—"Some means ought to be provided for checking the birth of sickly children."
17. Dr. Stockham.—"Thoughtful minds must acknowledge the great wrong done when children are begotten under adverse conditions. Women must learn the laws of life so as to protect themselves, and not be the means of bringing sin-cursed, diseased children into the world. The remedy is in the prevention of pregnancy, not in producing abortion."