[SPAM] hat the books should be restored to

Or the Lord Chief Justice's summing-up in the Queen _v._ Bradlaugh and
Besant. On February 19th he made an order for the destruction of the
pamphlets, against which Mr. Bradlaugh appealed to the General Sessions
on the following grounds: "1st. That the said book is not an obscene
book within the meaning of the 20th and 21st Victoria, cap. 83. 2nd.
That the said book is a scientific treatise on the law of population and
its connexion with poverty, and that there is nothing in the book which
is not necessary and legitimate in the description of the question. 3rd.
That the advocacy of non-life-destroying checks to population is not an
offence either at common law or by statute, and that the manner in which
that advocacy is raised in the said book, 'The Fruits of Philosophy', is
not such as makes it an indictable offence. 4th. That the discussion and
recommendation of checks to over-population after marriage is perfectly
lawful, and that there is in the advocacy and recommendations contained
in the book 'Fruits of Philosophy' nothing that is prurient or
calculated to inflame the passions. 5th. That the physiological
information in the said book is such as is absolutely necessary for
understanding the subjects treated, and such information is more fully
given in Carpenter's treatises on Phys

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