continue this analogy, until the worker is awakened to the realization that the roots of his malady lie deep in his own nature, his own organism, his own habits.  To blame everything upon the capitalist and the environment produced by capitalism is to focus attention upon merely one of the elements of the problem.  The Marxian too often forgets that before there was a capitalist there was exercised the unlimited reproductive activity of mankind, which produced the first overcrowding, the first want.  This goaded humanity into its industrial frenzy, into warfare and theft and slavery.  Capitalism has not created the lamentable state of affairs in which the world now finds itself.  It has grown out of them, armed with the inevitable power to take advantage of our swarming, spawning millions.  As that valiant thinker Monsieur G. Hardy has pointed out (6) the proletariat may be looked upon, not as the antagonist of capitalism, but as its accomplice.  Labor surplus, or the “army of reserve” which as for decades and centuries furnished the industrial background of human misery, which so invariably defeats strikes and labor revolts, cannot honestly be blamed upon capitalism.  It is, as M. Hardy points out, of sexual and proletarian origin.  In bringing too many children into the world, in adding to the total of misery, in intensifying the evils of overcrowding, the proletariat itself increases the burden of organized labor; even of the Socialist and Syndicalist organizations themselves with a surplus of the docilely inefficient, with those great uneducable and unorganizable masses.  With surprisingly few exceptions, Marxians of all countries have docilely followed their master in rejecting, with bitterness and vindictiveness that is difficult to explain, the principles and teachings of Birth Control.

Hunger alone is not responsible for the bitter struggle for existence we witness to-day in our over-advertised civilization.  Sex, uncontrolled, misdirected, over-stimulated and misunderstood, has run riot at the instigation of priest, militarist and exploiter.  Uncontrolled sex has rendered the proletariat prostrate, the capitalist powerful.  In this continuous, unceasing alliance of sexual instinct and hunger we find the reason for the decline of all the finer sentiments.  These instincts tear asunder the thin veils of culture and hypocrisy and expose to our gaze the dark sufferings of gaunt humanity.  So have we become familiar with the everyday spectacle of distorted bodies, of harsh and frightful diseases stalking abroad in the light of day; of misshapen heads and visages of moron and imbecile; of starving children in city streets and schools.  This is the true soil of unspeakable crimes.  Defect and delinquency join hands with disease, and accounts of inconceivable and revolting vices are dished up in the daily press.  When the majority of men and women are driven by the grim lash of sex and hunger in the unending struggle to feed themselves and to carry the dead-weight of dead and dying progeny, when little children are forced into factories, streets, and shops, education—­including even education in the Marxian dogmas—­is quite impossible; and civilization is more completely threatened than it ever could be by pestilence or war.