In conclusion it may be said that the feeling on the part of any critic of modern civilization that marriage has been a failure applies only to the facts of the imperfect carrying out of the ideal of monogamy. We may remind such critics that, like Christianity, monogamy (in the sense of hologamy or the total physical and psychical fusion of man and wife) cannot be called a failure, because in the vast majority of persons, it simply has not been given a fair trial. External, conscious, superficial fidelity is not true hologamy any more than lip service is Christianity; and, as a whole, civilized peoples have not yet succeeded in attaining faith either in the one or in the other.
CHAPTER X
BIRTH CONTROL
§ 214
This chapter is written; but, because of the egoistic-social legislation of fifty years ago, cannot be printed.
While it is lawful to inform readers that abortion is a crime and in every way unnatural, the practice of —— and ——, and the use of ——, ——, ——, etc., none of which in any sense causes the death of that which has begun to live, as is the case in abortion, cannot by law be described.
While it has been conclusively proved that in countries like Holland where birth control is not only legalized but made a matter of public instruction, the birth rate declines, but the death rate declines still more, legislators in this country have apparently gone on the principle that more unintelligent voters were more desirable than fewer intelligent voters. For where the death rate, due to birth control, is still less than the birth rate the result is a great increase in intelligence as well as eventually in population.