A Recantation of Malthusianism. By Mrs. Besant
Anon
Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Annie Besant Lucifer |
Subjects: | Materialism, Freethought, Population, Theosophy, Error, Eschatology |
Explains the reasons for Besant's 'latest change of front'. Having given up 'her Materialism [...] and substituted Theosophy for Atheism [...] Malthusianism has [now] followed Materialism into the limbo of no longer credible fallacies'. In opposition to her earlier neo-Malthusian calls for birth control, Besant now preaches that only through a life of ascetic 'self-control and self-denial' will men and women be able to develop the 'bodies and brains of a higher type' that will be theirs after reincarnation. |
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