[Little Essays of Love and Virtue by Havelock Ellis]@TWC D-Link book
Little Essays of Love and Virtue

CHAPTER VII
15/51

Galton considered that eugenics must become a factor of religion and be regarded as a sacred and virile creed, while Ellen Key holds that the religions of the past must be superseded by a new religion which will be the awakening of the whole of humanity to a consciousness of the "holiness of generation." For my own part, I scarcely consider that either eugenics or birth-control can be regarded as properly a part of religion.

Being of virtue and not of grace they belong more naturally to the sphere of morals.

But here they certainly need to go far deeper than the mere intelligence of the mind can take them.

They cannot become guides to conduct until their injunctions have been printed on the fleshy tablets of our hearts.

The demands of the race must speak from within us, in the voice of conscience which we disobey at our peril.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books