| ❖ மக்கள் நூறாண்டு உயிர்வாழ்க்கை - 1 ❖ |
hunting after posts in Government Offices and ilsewhere, mostly not with any honourable intention but with an avidity to scrape up as much as they can the people's money, that they should vie with each other in spending it as much in adorning their females with costly diamond jewels and silk cloths of every high grade as in other vain luxuries, that they should take no thought of the poor, suffering and prematurely dying millions in the country, of their language and religion and their social amelioration, is really a heart-rending spectacle.
It was this lamentable state of affairs that at first roused in me a feeling of boldness to layout the limited sources of my income in the acquisition and propagation of knowledge pertaining to the science of health, although this to a certain extent interfered with my study of English, Tamil and Sanscrit literatues, of the different systems of philosophy and different religious systems of the world. Even though the following work gives an elaboratge treatment to health - subjects, yet it is not done in the cold light of purposeless materialistic science. On the other hand, ideas common to allreligions and philosophies are brought to enliven and ennoble the subject and I trust that, after reading it once, one would find his or her mind greatly refreshed and exalted.
A work of this kind is quite new to the Tamil people and it may even seem strange to many a seemingly religious person that it should give such an explicit treatment to such avoided subjects as those that concern sex-functions and birth-control. Perceiving the evil of concealing such vital matters from the knowledge of people, even women of high attainments, and even men of great religious distinctions have, in the foreign countries, come forward to speak and write on those subjects without any reserve. Marie Stopes, and E.A. Rout's deservingly famous writings are familiar instances in point. And there is not a greater and stronger upholder of the needs of birth-control
