Pioneers of birth control in England and America . prosecuting, becausethat has not yet transpired. After an absence of an hour andthirty-five minutes, the jury returned anddelivered this curious verdict: *^We are unanimously of opinionthat the book in question is calculatedto deprave public morals, but at thesame time we entirely exonerate thedefendants from any corrupt motivesin publishing it. The Lord Chief Justice explained thatthis was technically equivalent to a ver- 47 PIONEERS OF BIRTH CONTROL diet of guilty, yet he was disposed to le-niency if submission was promised. Butrecantation w
Pioneers of birth control in England and America . prosecuting, becausethat has not yet transpired. After an absence of an hour andthirty-five minutes, the jury returned anddelivered this curious verdict: *^We are unanimously of opinionthat the book in question is calculatedto deprave public morals, but at thesame time we entirely exonerate thedefendants from any corrupt motivesin publishing it. The Lord Chief Justice explained thatthis was technically equivalent to a ver- 47 PIONEERS OF BIRTH CONTROL diet of guilty, yet he was disposed to le-niency if submission was promised. Butrecantation was not in Bradlaughs vo-cabulary, and when he and his co-defend-ant pledged fidelity to their principles,the Lord Chief Justice became impatientand imposed a severe sentence, which,however, was never served, for a highercourt imimediately discovered a technicalerror in the indictment, and Bradlaughand Annie Besant were acquitted with ac-claim—and thus ended the trial whichAlexander Bain has pronounced anepoch in the history of our liberties. 48. DR. CHARLES R. DRYSDALE IV THE MALTHUSIAN LEAGUE Children have been without value in the worldbecause there have been too many of them; theyhave been produced by a blind and helpless instinct,and have been allowed to die by the hundred thou-sand. For more than half a century after the eraof social reform set in there was no decline at allin the enormous infant mortality. It has onlynow begun, as the inevitable accompaniment of thedecline in the birth rate. Not the least servicedone by the fall in the birth rate has been to teachus the worth of our children. We possess thepower, if we will, deliberately and consciously tocreate a new race, to mold the world of the fu-ture. Havelock Ellis: Bace Regeneration, In the Bradlaugh-Besant edition ofFruits of Philosophy occur certain foot-notes which were introduced for the fol- 49 , V
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