[Speech in Central College Bengalore]

Date

1936-01-17

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Source

The Hindu

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Sanger gave a speech on "Birth Control" to the South Indian Science Association at the Central College" in Bangalore, India. Sastra Vaidya Pravine, and S. Subba Rao presided. A summary was published as "Birth Control," The Hindu, Jan. 18, 1936.

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Birth Control

To you in India who have given to the world marvelous temples that have been built by your great men in the past and handed on to use (westerners) to admire--and we do admire them--the time is now come to make another kind of temple, the "human temple" and the "human body." Let us begin to make our bodies fit and perfect instruments to house that soul that we may summon to take its place in the mystery of human beings.

Parts of this article that not related to Margaret Sanger have been were omitted.

"Mrs. Margaret Sanger said that birth control was the key--not of a new moral and spiritual awakening. It was not only a health or economic expedient. It was a moral and social principle. That principle was interlocked with the spiritual advancement of nations and with the race as well."

Many British Bishops and clergymen, Mrs. Sanger said, had been pleading for some time past that the members of the Christian faith should come forth and lead the movement so that it might be a constructive force in civilization and not to close their eyes and ears to its human appeal."

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