THE FALLING BIRTHRATE
Sits,—In all the articles and correspondence which have dealt with the falling birth-rate one aspect has not, as far as I know, been touched upon. It is rather an elusive thing and yet a very real one. It is the nation's "will to live." Once that is gone no panacea will save a race from decay.
The English have just finished a victorious war for freedom, but in the process they have had to give up, voluntarily, the very thing for which they were fighting. It was understood, at the time the sacrifice was made, that the lost freedom was to be restored as soon as possible. Today the story is somewhat different, and we are told that our beloved freedom will not return for some time. May it not be true that the Englishman, like other freedom-loving races and animals, will not breed in captivity?—
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