THE LAW OF SEX: BEING AN EXPOSITION OF THE NATURAL LAW BY WHICH IN MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. T251 579 1883 PREFACE. IN the following pages I claim to make known a new discovery of a great law of Nature; nothing less than the law which governs the sexes, and whereby the sex of offspring can be controlled. A satisfactory knowledge of the law of sex would largely add to the happiness of many families in all civilized countries, and also help us to the solution of many intricate social problems of urgent character, such, for instance, as the possible assimilation of alien and lower races, the avoidance of a lamentable redundancy of women in old settled countries, etc.; and I am sanguine enough to believe that the accomplishment of some of these results will be brought about by the publication of this volume. I have spent twenty years of my life in studying the subject and its connected literature in various languages, and though my theory has been matured for several years, I have delayed its publication till |