Malcolm Muggeridge On Birth Control

"What, I wonder, will posterity -- assuming they are at all interested in us and our doings -- make of a generation of men, who, having developed technilogical skills capable of producing virtually unlimited quantities of whatever they might need or desire, as well as enabling them to explore and perhaps colonize the universe, were possessed by a panic fear that soon there would not be enough food for them to eat or room for them to live? It will seem, surely, one of the most derisory, ignominious and despicable attitudes ever to be entertained int he whole of human history; though containing its own corrective. In seeking to avert an imagined calamity, the promoters and practitioners of birth-control automatically abolish themselves, leaving the future to the procreative. An interesting case of self-genocide."