On 7th July 1921 — one hundred years ago today — Professor Ann Louise McIlroy gave a talk at the Medico-Legal Society, 11 Chandos Street, London. She spoke on Some factors in the Control of the Birth Rate to an audience that included Lord Justice Atkins, Earl Russell, G.B. Shaw and Dr. Halliday Sutherland. In the…

This is the fourth instalment of In Search of Truth from A Time to Keep (1934) Be that as it may, at the age of seventeen the Protestant pack of cards in my hands collapsed. Why? Because, apart from moral issues of which no mortal man can judge, I had no philosophic system. The Shorter…