Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians

CHAPTER I - THE ESSENTIAL FALLACIES OF MALTHUSIAN TEACHING - Section 1. MALTHUS AND THE NEO-MALTHUSIANS. (a) Malthus (b) The Neo-Malthusians - Section 2. TEACHING BASED ON FALSE PREMISES. (a) That Population progresses geometrically (b) That Food Supply progresses arithmetically (c) That Overpopulation is the cause of Poverty and Disease - Section 3. THE ROOT FALLACY - Section 4. WHAT OVERPOPULATION MEANS - Section 5. NO EVIDENCE OF OVERPOPULATION (a) In the Suez Canal Zone (b) In "Closed Countries" like Japan - Section 6. A NATURAL LAW CHECKING FERTILITY - Section 7. OVERPOPULATION IN THE FUTURE - Section 8. HOW NATIONS HAVE PERISHED - Section 9. PHYSICAL CATASTROPHES (a) Disease (b) War - Section 10. MORAL CATASTROPHES - CHAPTER II - THE FALSE DEDUCTIONS CONCERNING POVERTY - Section 1. BIRTH-RATE AND POVERTY (a) Famines (b) Abundance (c) Wages - Section 2. POVERTY IN GREAT BRITAIN DUE TO OTHER CAUSES (a) Under-development (b) Severance of the Inhabitants from the Soil - Section 3. CAUSES OF POVERTY IN INDIA - Section 4. POVERTY IN FACT CAUSES A HIGH BIRTHRATE (a) Malthusianism is an attack on the Poor (b) A Hindrance to Reform (c) A Quack Remedy for Poverty - Section 5. POVERTY AND CIVILISATION - CHAPTER III - HIGH BIRTH-RATES NOT THE CAUSE OF HIGH DEATH-RATES - Section 1. POVERTY AS NOW EXISTING - Section 2. HIGH BIRTH-RATE NOT THE CAUSE OF HIGH DEATH-RATE: PROVED FROM STATISTICS (a) Canada (b) Connaught - Section 3. A LOW BIRTH-RATE NO GUARANTEE OF A LOW DEATH-RATE - Section 4. VITAL STATISTICS OF FRANCE - Section 5. COEFFICIENTS OF CORRELATION - CHAPTER IV - HOW RELIGION AFFECTS THE BIRTHRATE - Section 1. FRENCH STATISTICS MISINTERPRETED BY MALTHUSIANS - Section 2. EVIDENCE FROM HOLLAND - Section 3. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Section 4. THE SAME RESULTS IN ENGLAND - CHAPTER V - IS THERE A NATURAL LAW REGULATING THE PROPORTION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS? - Section 1. THE THEORY OF THOMAS DOUBLEDAY REVIVED - Section 2. MR. PELL'S GENERALISATIONS CRITICISED - Section 3. THE LAW OF DECLINE - Section 4. ILLUSTRATED FROM GREEK HISTORY (a) Moral Catastrophe in Ancient Greece (b) The Physical Catastrophe induced by Selfishness - CHAPTER VI - THE FALLING BIRTH-RATE IN ENGLAND: ITS CAUSES - Section 1. NOT, AS MALTHUSIANS ASSERT, DUE MAINLY TO CONTRACEPTIVES - Section 2. DECLINE IN FERTILITY DUE TO SOME NATURAL LAW - Section 3. AND TO CHARACTER OF OCCUPATION. - Section 4. AGGRAVATED DOUBTLESS BY MALTHUSIANISM - CHAPTER VII - THE EVILS OF ARTIFICIAL BIRTH CONTROL - Section 1. NOT A PHYSICAL BENEFIT (a) A Cause of Sterility (b) Neuroses (c) Fibroid Tumours - Section 2. A SCANDALOUS SUGGESTION - Section 3. A CAUSE OF UNHAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE - Section 4. AN INSULT TO TRUE WOMANHOOD - Section 5. A DEGRADATION OF THE FEMALE SEX - Section 6. SPECIALLY HURTFUL TO THE POOR (a) Affecting the Young (b) Exposing the Poor to Experiment (c) Tending towards the Servile State - Section 7. A MENACE TO THE NATION (a) There is a Limit to lowering the Death-rate (b) Birth Control tends to extinguish the Birth-rate (c) A Danger to the Empire (d) The Dangers of Small Families - Section 8. THE PLOT AGAINST CHRISTENDOM - CHAPTER VIII - THE RELIGIOUS ARGUMENT AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL - Section 1. AN OFFENCE AGAINST THE LAW OF NATURE - Section 2. REFLECTED IN THE NORMAL CONSCIENCE - Section 3. EXPRESSED IN THE SCIENCE OF ETHICS - Section 4. BIRTH CONTROL CONDEMNED BY PROTESTANT CHURCHES - APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII - A NEO-MALTHUSIAN ATTACK ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND - CHAPTER IX - THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON BIRTH CONTROL - Section 1. A FALSE VIEW OF HER DOCTRINE - Section 2. THE ESSENCE AND PURPOSE OF MARRIAGE - Section 3. ARTIFICIAL STERILITY WHOLLY CONDEMNED - Section 4. THE ONLY LAWFUL METHOD OF BIRTH CONTROL - Section 5. CONCLUSION - BIBLIOGRAPHY - BIRTH CONTROL - CHAPTER I - THE ESSENTIAL FALLACIES OF MALTHUSIAN TEACHING - Section 1. MALTHUS AND THE NEO-MALTHUSIANS

Section 2. TEACHING BASED ON FALSE PREMISES

Section 3. THE ROOT FALLACY

Section 4. WHAT OVERPOPULATION MEANS

Section 5. NO EVIDENCE OF OVERPOPULATION

Section 6. A NATURAL LAW CHECKING FERTILITY

Section 7. OVERPOPULATION IN THE FUTURE

Section 8. HOW NATIONS HAVE PERISHED

Section 9. PHYSICAL CATASTROPHES

Section 10. MORAL CATASTROPHES