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THE IDEAL OF INDIAN WOMANHOOD Meanwhile, the distress of the middle-class grows, sapping the physical energy and weakening the mental vigour of the very social clements who are to play an important role in the impending political revolution which must take place as a condition for the rejuvenation of the Indian society.
Any number of young men are married while still in the school, and are fathers of children when they find themselves unemployed, indeed, practically unemployable, on finishing their academic education. Can you expect them to be publicspirited, concerned with anything but their own affairs ? Weighed down by their own burd:n, they have no time to think of others. Unemployment may make the educated youth discontented; some of them may be driven to desperate acts. But on the wholc, it is bound to have a depressing and demoralising effect. Those engrossed with the immediate problem of earning a livelihood cannot have a broad vision. They are bound to be indifferent to general social problems, and disinclined to have a long perspective of things.
Of course, all these imm-diste problems will not be directly solved by the practice of birthcontrol. But it will he beneficial psychologically, and in consequence arrest the moral degeneration and physical deterioration of the youth. In other words, the practice of birth-control may not have any direct economic value ; it will, however, touch
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