Religion: Pope v. Poisoned Pastures

Monday, Jan. 19, 1931

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But one of the most compelling rebuttals was not a direct one. It came from Professor Julian Sorell Huxley. Brother of Novelist Aldous Leonard (Point Counterpoint) Huxley, and grandson of the late great Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley is himself a most distinguished biologist and eloquent member of the scientific vanguard. Speaking to the Philadelphia Forum, he said: "In the long run we must envisage the control of population in the same manner we now control contagious disease. Birth control is by no means perfect, but it is one of the major events in the world's history! . . . In one or two centuries ... we shall tell the man who can't provide for himself and his family that he cannot have State aid unless he agrees not to have any more children. If he refuses, State aid shall also be refused him or else he shall be locked up. ... In our society a man with a small family finds that he gets ahead quicker and that his smaller number of children can have greater advantages. All of this may seem very undemocratic, but heredity and biology are very undemocratic."

^{—Also named for knighthood, but in another order, that of the
Holy Sepulchre, were 13 other U. S. citizens last week, constituting
the first national council of the Order to be formed in the U. S. Among
reputed founders is Godfrey de Bouillon, a leader in the first crusade
which wrested (1099) Jerusalem from the "Infidels." The 13 candidates
prepared to kneel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, be given spurs
and sword, draw sword and be tapped on the shoulder with it, in true
medieval fashion. Most socialite of the thirteen knights: Kenneth
O'Brien, son-in-law of Knight of Malta Clarence Hungerford Mackay.
**By modern, cowl-less Jesuits (they wear simple black cassocks),
always high scholars of the Church since their Society's founding in
1564 by St. Ignatius of Loyola. The staff at "The Mother House of the
Society of Jesus" near Vatican City had labored a fortnight over the
translations before they were authorized to be made public.}