To Alice Drysdale Vickery
Whose prophetic vision of liberated womanhood has been an inspiration
«I dream of a world in which the spirits of women are flames stronger than fire, a world in which modesty has become courage and yet remains modesty, a world in which women are as unlike men as ever they were in the world I sought to destroy, a world in which women shine with a loveliness of self-revelation as enchanting as ever the old legends told, and yet a world which would immeasurably transcend the old world in the self-sacrificing passion of human service. I have dreamed of that world ever since I began to dream at all.»
Havelock Ellis
IntroductionBy H. G. Wells
Chapter 1A New Truth Emerges
Chapter 2Conscripted Motherhood
Chapter 3"Children Troop Down from Heaven"
Chapter 4The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded
Chapter 5The Cruelty of Charity
Chapter 6Neglected Factors of the World Problem
Chapter 7Is Revolution the Remedy?
Chapter 8Dangers of Cradle Competition
Chapter 9A Moral Necessity
Chapter 10Science the Ally
Chapter 11Education and Expression
Chapter 12Woman and the Future
AppendixPrinciples and Aims of the American Birth Control League