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Excerpt from Elements of Modern Materialism: Inculcating the Idea of a Future State He does not say he presents me to an enlightened. Impartial, and unprejudiced public, by whose decision I must stand or fall; for there is no such public in existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Speech of Dr. Charles Knowlton, in Support of Materialism: Against the Argument of Origen Bacheler, the Great Goliah, and Champion of the Cross, in 1836 A man may be 'a close thinker, and as he leisurely sits in his office, se eluded from the World, he may be able to express his thoughts on pa per but all thisis no evidence 01 a talent for public debate. 7 19. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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"This is the book the of which, in England, caused the arrest of Mr. Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant. 125,000 copies sold in three months after their arrest. It should be read by everyone." -The Evolutionists, 1882 "Just ninety-nine years before the Linda Lovelace trial re-tickled the British public's fancy for a striptease in the Law Courts, a similar 'outrage' was up for prosecution. That offending publication...set out merely to make clear the facts of reproduction and the advantages of birth-control... Originally published in America in 1832, its author, Charles Knowlton, was imprisoned for his efforts. Forty years later Charles and Annie, knowing the risks they took, republished the Pamphlet believing 'it was . . . a crime to bring into the world human beings doomed to misery and premature death', and 'the checks that ought to control the population are scientific'. They updated the pamphlet. Its recommendations (including innocent sponges attached to long ribbons) were explicit. They were tried, defending themselves, before the Lord Chief Justice.... Fortunately the major part of the book consists of the trial itself, so that the fine characters of Annie and Charles appear through their own words. But the couple were found guilty, their pamphlet was 'calculated to deprave public morals.'" -The Spectator Contents PUBLISHERS' PREFACE PHILOSOPHICAL PROEM FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER I. TO LIMIT AT WILL THE NUMBER OF THEIR OFFSPRING CHAPTER II. ON GENERATION CHAPTER III. OF PROMOTING AND CHECKING CONCEPTION CHAPTER IV. REMARKS ON THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCT APPENDIX
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Excerpt from Two Remarkable Lectures Delivered in Boston, by Dr. C. Knowlton, on the Day of His Leaving the Jail at East Cambridge, March 31, 1833, Where He Had Been Imprisoned, for Publishing a Book And gentlemen, to t1ace the causes of my being now here, I should at that hydra monster which, in my Opinion, has been of more human misery than any other one thing - not en do I say, as astronomy has swept that bible cob over our heads - but upon earth. I mean superstition. Tion, 0 then graceless offspring of ignorance and Vil hast then not done? Many millions hast thou caused to flow How' many weeping, widows, destitute sconsolate lovers hast thou notv' made? The thou ou hast consigned to the dungeon, the scaffold, the rack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Charles Knowlton was born on May 10, 1800 in Templeton, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Stephen and Comfort (White) Knowlton and was descended from English forebears who emigrated to America in the seventeenth century. He spent his early life on his father's farm.
Charles was mainly self-taught beyond the early grades except for his studies with various practitioners in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the medical department of Dartmouth College in 1824.
In 1824 Knowlton began his medical practice in Hawley, Massachusetts and later moved to Ashfield, Massachusetts where he became the prominent doctor. In 1929 he prepared his Elements of Modern Materialism, one of the earliest books on philosophical materialism, perhaps the first by an American author, issued in this country. Almost unreadable now, it nevertheless contains interesting anticipations of many modern views. The work which made his reputation was the anonymous publication in New York of the Fruits of Philosophy; or, the Private Companion of Young Married People (1832). A second edition, not anonymous, was brought out in Boston in 1833 undoubtedly by Abner Kneeland, editor of the Boston Investigator. This was followed by other American editions up to the ninth (1839), which was reprinted by subscription (1877) on the initiative of a group of physicians at the Harvard Medical School. Though a temperate discussion of the desirability of birth control, on medical, economic, and social grounds, the treatise, flaunting many accepted conceptions and values of the period, did not escape court action. The author was prosecuted and fined at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1832, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was sentenced on December 10, 1832, to three months' imprisonment at hard labor in the House of Correction. Prosecution did not stop the sale of the work, however, and at Greenfield, Massachusetts, Knowlton was again haled into court; but in this instance the prosecution, originating with an Ashfield clergyman, resulted in a nolle prosequi, the jury having been unable to agree on two previous occasions. In this trial, Knowlton's medical partner, Dr. Roswell Shephard, was a codefendant.
Reprinted in England from 1834 on by various Freethought publishers, the Fruits of Philosophy circulated quietly until it became the subject of the famous test case, The Queen vs. Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. The effect of the prosecution, eventually successful for the defendants, was electric. Circulation, which previously had not exceeded a thousand a year, reached a quarter of a million within a few years. It attained half a million if one includes the circulation of several provincial editions and of Annie Besant's Law of Population, which first appeared in January 1879 to replace the somewhat antiquated text of the Fruits of Philosophy. Dutch and French editions show that Knowlton exerted an influence on the Continent as well. Moreover the prosecution undoubtedly created a market for the development of a new contraceptive technique (introduced into England probably by Dr. Henry A. Allbutt) which has since revolutionized modern clinical procedure in the western world.
Between 1876 and 1891 probably two million books and tracts furnishing elaborate contraceptive information were disseminated in England. Knowlton's other writings include: Address of Dr. Charles Knowlton, Before the Friends of Mental Liberty, at Greenfield, Massachussets, and Constitution of the United Liberals of Franklin County, Massachussets (1845); and A History of the Recent Excitement at Ashfield, part I (1834), the second part of which appeared in the Boston Investigator, September 25, 1835.
Knowlton became the leading country doctor in western Massachusetts. His fame mainly rested on his book on birth control entitled, "The Fruits of Philosophy, or the Private Companion of Young Married People" (1929). It was the first work of its kind in the United States. He also contributed several articles to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
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On April 17, 1821 Knowlton married Tabitha F. Stewart of Winchendon, Massachusetts.
