Mr.Bradlaugh, in reviewing the book, said that it was written "with honest and pure intent and purpose," and recommended to working men the exposition of the law of population.

His enemies took hold of this recommendation, declared that he shared the author's views on the impermanence of the marriage tie, and, despite his reiterated contradictions, they used extracts against marriage from the book as containing his views.

Anything more meanly vile it would be difficult to conceive, but such were the weapons used against him all his life, and used often by men whose own lives contrasted most unfavourably with his own.

Unable to find anything in his own writings to serve their purpose, they used this book to damage him with those who knew nothing at first-hand of his views.

What his enemies feared were not his views on marriage--which, as I have said, was conservative--but his Radicalism and his Atheism.