Pioneers of birth control in England and America . ate is enormouswhere families are large among the poor-er classes. This famous trial gave suchimpetus to the movement for the regula- 51 PIONEERS OF BIRTH CONTROL tion of the birth-rate that the MalthusianLeague was organized in London, underthe presidency of Dr. Drysdale, who like-wise became the first editor of the period-ical of the league, The Malthusian^ ACrusade Against Poverty. Dr. Drysdalewas the author of The Population Ques-tion According to Malthus and Mill, andhe pubhshed a Life of Malthus—^but areadable biography of Malthus has ne
Pioneers of birth control in England and America . ate is enormouswhere families are large among the poor-er classes. This famous trial gave suchimpetus to the movement for the regula- 51 PIONEERS OF BIRTH CONTROL tion of the birth-rate that the MalthusianLeague was organized in London, underthe presidency of Dr. Drysdale, who like-wise became the first editor of the period-ical of the league, The Malthusian^ ACrusade Against Poverty. Dr. Drysdalewas the author of The Population Ques-tion According to Malthus and Mill, andhe pubhshed a Life of Malthus—^but areadable biography of Malthus has neverbeen written. The Malthusian League is now presid-ed over by Dr. Alice Drysdale Vickery,who also won her neo-malthusian spurs inthe celebrated Bradlaugh trial. At thattime she held a certificate for midwiferyof the Obstetrical Society of London, wasa fourth-year student of IEcole de Medi-cine at Paris, and was the first womanwho had passed the regular examinationof the Pharmaceutical Society of GreatBritain. After testifying at the trial, 52. DR. ALICE VICKERY DRYSDALE THE MALTHUSIAN LEAGUE Miss Alice Vickery and Dr. Charles were married. The present editor of The Malthtmanis their son, Dr. Charles Vickery Drys-dale, who has written extensively on thepopulation question, among his works be-ing The SmaU Family System. writings carry no emotionalappeal, but they contain diagrams; theauthor indulges, not in perorations, but instatistics; his is the eloquence, not of rhet-oric, but of dry facts. A few months after the conclusion ofthe Knowlton skirmish—^when AnnieBesant was celebrating the victory bywriting the Law of Population whichachieved an enormous sale—similar pro-ceedings were commenced against Ed-ward Truelove, a London bookseller whonot only published and sold, but believedin liberal literature. In this case the of-fending treatise was nearly half a century 5B PIONEERS OF BIRTH CONTROL old—Robert Dale Owens Moral Physi-ology. A member of
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