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Havelock Ellis. The Task of Social Hygiene
The Task of Social Hygiene
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE TASK OF SOCIAL HYGIENE
I
INTRODUCTION
II
THE CHANGING STATUS OF WOMEN [45]
I
II
III
III
THE NEW ASPECT OF THE WOMAN'S MOVEMENT
I
II
IV
THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN IN RELATION TO ROMANTIC LOVE
V
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A FALLING BIRTH-RATE
I
II
III
IV
VI
EUGENICS AND LOVE
I
II
III
IV
NOTE ON THE LIFE-HISTORY RECORD
VII
RELIGION AND THE CHILD
VIII
THE PROBLEM OF SEXUAL HYGIENE
IX
IMMORALITY AND THE LAW
X
THE WAR AGAINST WAR
XI
THE PROBLEM OF AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE
THE QUESTION ON INTERNATIONAL COINAGE
XII
INDIVIDUALISM AND SOCIALISM
THE END. INDEX
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Havelock Ellis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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It is perhaps unnecessary to dwell on a point which is now at last, one may hope, becoming clear to most intelligent persons. But I may perhaps be allowed to refer in passing to an argument that has been brought forward with the wearisome iteration which always marks the progress of those who are feeble in argument. The good stocks of upper social class are decreasing in fertility, it is said; the bad stocks of lower social class are not decreasing; therefore the bad stocks are tending to replace the good stocks. [11]
It must, however, be pointed out that, even assuming that the facts are as stated; it is a hazardous assumption that the best stocks are necessarily the stocks of high social class. In the main no doubt this is so, but good stocks are nevertheless so widely spread through all classes—such good stocks in the lower social classes being probably the most resistent to adverse conditions—that we are not entitled to regard even a slightly greater net increase of the lower social classes as an unmitigated evil. It may be that, as Mercier has expressed it, "we have to regard a civilized community somewhat in the light of a lamp, which burns at the top and is replenished from the bottom." [12]
