The Pivot of Civilization - Brossura

Sanger, Margaret

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1605976938 ISBN 13: 9781605976938

Casa editrice: Standard Pubns Inc, 2008

Riassunto

...Birth control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is justified in calling it the pivot or the corner-stone of a progressive civilization. These terms involve a criticism of metaphors that may take us far away from the question in hand. Birth Control is no new thing in human experience, and it has been practised in societies of the most various types and fortunes. But there can be little doubt that The Pivot 8 ot of Civilization at the present time it is a test issue between two widely different interpretations of the word civilization, and of what is good in life and conduct. The way in which men and women range themselves in this controversy is more simply and directly indicative of their general intellectual quality than any other single indication. I do not wish to imply by this that the people who oppose are more or less intellectual than the people who advocate Birth Control, but only that they have fundamentally contrasted general ideas,--that, mentally, they are DIFFERENT. Very simple, very complex, very dull and very brilliant persons may be found in either camp, but all those in either camp have certain attitudes in common which they share with oneanother, and do not share with those in the other camp...

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Standard Pubns Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1605976938
• ISBN 13: 9781605976938
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 148
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile