In a leading article, after a number of letters had been inserted, it said:-- "The conditions are assuredly wrong which bring one member of the married partnership into a bondage so cruel.

It is no less evident that the cause of the bondage in such cases lies in the too rapid multiplication of the family.

There was a time when any idea of voluntary limitation was regarded by pious people as interfering with Providence.

We are beyond that now, and have become capable of recognising that Providence works through the common sense of individual brains.

We limit population just as much by deferring marriage from prudential motives as by any action that may be taken after it....