15 OCTOBER 1921, Page 3

We may, however, notice some essential points of the address.

Birth control has come to stay, and no attempt to disestablish its hold on the civilized races could be successful. The sub- stitution of abstention was neither practical nor physically justifiable. Here Lord Dawson fearlessly and plainly opposed the teachings of the Roman Church and the alleged teachings of the Anglican. He would have nothing to do with the dogma that bodily intercourse is only to be permitted to married persons for one purpose—the procreation of children. He condemned that view not only upon hygienic but on moral grounds, and gave a moving apologia for sexual love and passion which will, we trust, help to get rid of the unwholesome view that the functions of the body can be per se shameful and even accursed.