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Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question

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Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question

Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant

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Two publishers stood trial in 1877 for reprinting this small medical treatise, and the scandal made it famous across the English-speaking world. Charles Knowlton's essay on the population question discusses family limitation with a physician's frankness rare for 1832. This is the Bradlaugh and Besant edition, preface and all. A landmark in the history of free speech and family life.

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12 chapters

  1. 1FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY
  2. 2A TREATISE ON THE POPULATION QUESTION
  3. 3Edited by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant
  4. 4Contents
  5. 5PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.
  6. 6PHILOSOPHICAL PROEM
  7. 7FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY.
  8. 8CHAPTER I. TO LIMIT AT WILL THE NUMBER OF THEIR OFFSPRING
  9. 9CHAPTER II. ON GENERATION
  10. 10CHAPTER III. OF PROMOTING AND CHECKING CONCEPTION
  11. 11CHAPTER IV. REMARKS ON THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCT
  12. 12APPENDIX
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