CHAPTER I. In the eyes of some they were notorious. In The Fruits of Philosophy, Knowlton detailed recipes for contraceptives and advocated for controlling reproduction.
By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. To Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant's consternation, Watts – their close associate – agreed to the destruction of the printer's plates and his stock. However, the story did not end there because Bradlaugh then managed to have the judgment set aside on a technicality concerning the wording of the original indictment. At 4 p.m. Saturday 24 March the new edition went on sale and 500 copies were sold in the first twenty minutes, including some to the police. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This led to Knowlton's imprisonment in Cambridge at “hard labor” for three months, and was a central issue in Kneeland's blasphemy trial in 1838. The Fruits of Philosophy was a relatively obscure publication which provided elementary (but not entirely accurate) contraceptive information. The NSS is deeply saddened to report the death of one of its longest-serving presidents, Barbara Smoker, at the age of 96. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of. There is nothing like reading a history or biography book and being so completely transported to another time and place that you find... To see what your friends thought of this book. They were committed to trial at the Old Bailey and the case was brought before the Queen's Bench on 18 June amidst great publicity. There was nothing in the pamphlet that was unknown to medical practitioners or which had not been published before. In The Fruits of Philosophy, Knowlton detailed recipes for contraceptives and advocated for controlling reproduction. He earned his medical degree from Dartmouth College in 1824. During the last 20 years of the 19th century the birth rate began to decline. TO LIMIT AT WILL THE NUMBER OF THEIR OFFSPRING Showing how desirable it is, both in a political and a social point of view, for mankind to be able to limit at WILL THE NUMBER OF THEIR OFFSPRING, WITHOUT SACRIFICING THE PLEASURE THAT ATTENDS THE GRATIFICATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCT. All rights reserved.Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Accessibility | Contact Us, Video lectures: The origins of secularism & the NSS, Notable NSS Presidents since Chapman Cohen, NSS launches lecture series on history of secularism, Former NSS president Barbara Smoker dies at 96, NSS unveils blue plaque commemorating Holyoake, Talk to honour NSS’s longest-serving president in Leicester, NSS welcomes initiative to mark freethought history month, It's not too late to fulfil George Holyoake's secularist vision, Barbara Smoker’s remarkable life should inspire us all, Peterloo’s heroes represented the finest traditions of secular democracy, The gay community should recognise and oppose its chief oppressor.
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