Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

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ESSAYS IN WAR-TIME

FURTHER STUDIES IN THE TASK OF SOCIAL HYGIENE

BY HAVELOCK ELLIS

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION II. EVOLUTION AND WAR III. WAR AND EUGENICS IV. MORALITY IN WARFARE V. IS WAR DIMINISHING VI. WAR AND THE BIRTH-RATE VII. WAR AND DEMOCRACY VIII. FEMINISM AND MASCULINISM IX. THE MENTAL DIFFERENCES OF MEN AND WOMEN X. THE WHITE SLAVE CRUSADE XI. THE CONQUEST OF VENEREAL DISEASE XII. THE NATIONALISATION OF HEALTH XIII. EUGENICS AND GENIUS XIV. THE PRODUCTION OF ABILITY XV. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE XVI. THE MEANING OF THE BIRTH-RATE XVII. CIVILISATION AND THE BIRTH-RATE XVIII. BIRTH CONTROL INDEX

I

INTRODUCTION

From the point of view of literature, the Great War of to-day has brought us into a new and closer sympathy with the England of the past. Dr. Woods and Mr. Baltzly in their recent careful study of European Warfare, _Is War Diminishing?_ come to the conclusion that England during the period of her great activity in the world has been "fighting about half the time." We had begun to look on war as belonging to the past and insensibly fallen into the view of Buckle that in England "a love of war is, as a national taste, utterly extinct." Now we have awakened to realise that we belong to a people who have been "fighting about half the time."

Thus it is, for instance, that we witness a revival of interest in Wordsworth, not that Wordsworth, the high-priest of Nature among the solitary Lakes, whom we have never forsaken, but the Wordsworth who sang exultantly of Carnage as God's Daughter. To-day we turn to the war-like Wordsworth, the stern patriot hurling defiance at the enemies who threatened our island fortress, as the authentic voice of England.