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more in the higher than in the lower stratum of
society. As a result, the poorer are increasing in numbers
and comparatively higher class dwindling away.
And along with this, the average prudence, energy
and intellect in Western Society is rapidly falling
away. "Within the classes that are dwindling, is the
best elements that are dwindling most rapidly." In
view of this, as Mr. Bertrand Russell says : " It
seems unquestionable that if our economic system
and our moral standards remain unchanged, there
will be, in the next two or three generations, a rapid
change for the worse in the character of the population
in all civilised countries The problem
. . .
is one which applies to the whole of Western civilisation."*
Yes, the whole of Western civilisation nay, the
whole of Christendom is fast degenerating as a result
of the unbriddled sex-gratification and unchecked
control of children more by foul means than by fair.
The same writer goes on :
"Owing to the excess
of women a large number of women remain unmarried.
These women, though not debarred in practice
from relations with men, are debarred by the the
code to have children."f As a result of all these, the
physical relations of man and woman has become with
the Western woman a matter of "pleasure rather than
the satisfaction of a profound need, an excitement,
not an attainment."
The Moslem world is free from this evil practice and
those akin to this one the greater part of it, though
9 Principles of Social Re-construction. f ^'Vf.