Peace be to you.

The subject about to be discussed is birth control.

The words are not very proper, first of all, because those who believe in it actually believe neither in birth nor in control.

Therefore, we shall never use the words again. They are finished.

We propose first to answer one or two objections or false philosophies about the subject

of the purpose of marriage.

The first is this.

Married couples will often say,

we cannot afford more children.

Therefore, we have a right to fumble with the levers of life.

Those who make a statement of this particular kind probably never to fumble with the levers of life.

Those who make a statement of this particular kind probably never think of the terrible principle that they are enunciating, namely, the primacy of the economic over the

human.

Now, just suppose one put that into practice in other walks of life.

Suppose a family had five children,

but they had enough money to buy only four hats.

Do you think that they would be permitted or should be permitted to cut off the head of a child

in order to bring the economic to the level of the human and the human to the level of the economic? Suppose a husband says that he can no longer support his wife.

Ought he be entitled to shoot her?

What is forgotten here in giving the primacy to the economic is that we receive blessings as we put ourselves

in the area of God's love. A waif on the street does not receive food, clothing, and shelter

as a child in a family because that wafer's outside of the environment

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