Excerpt from Fewer and Better Babies or the Limitation of Offspring by the Prevention of Conception: The Enormous Benefits of the Practice to the Individual, Society and the Race Pointed Out and All Objections Answered Ning my efforts could be but feeble and sporadic, and the results correspondingly slight. But during the past ten years, as leisure and financial ease increased, as my standing and influence in the profession grew stronger, I have been hammering at the subject incessantly. At every pos sible opportunity, by the aid of lectures, pamphlets, letters to editors, articles in medical journals and in newspapers and books, I have endeavored to bring the subject to the attention of the medical profession and of the laity. And I am glad to say, that the propaganda has been bearing fruit. The laity listened eagerly from the first; but it was a Sysiphus' work indeed to move the medical profes sion. What its mental state was on the subject (as well as on some other sub jects) when I started the advocacy of my ideas, I would rather not say; the lan guage might be slightly unparliamentary; and its attitude towards me was anything. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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