Schone attributes to the increase of prostitution in France
W one of the causes of its depopulation. Dewey, writing on the
^\depopulation of France, in TAe Westminster Review for Decem-
ber, 1896, calls Paris "the world's brothel."

There is sufficient ground, then, for stating that Neo-
Malthusianism, with regard to its alleged power of hindering
vice, has not succeeded in France, where, everybody must
admit, it has had ample scope. Moreover, looking beneath
the surface in this matter, we can readily observe that prostitu-
tion presents many drawbacks to those women who evince a
desire to follow such a caUing there. In France they are
only permitted to ply it under well-defined regulations, a
close supervision and scrutiny by th& police des mxurs.
The principle upon which foreign Governments act in this
matter is, that if women, of their own free choice, deliver
themselves over to prostitution, they shall not be permitted to
infect the men of the race with the disease which necessarily
follows upon the practice of that vice. They assert that
women are the primary factors in the matter, and must be
dealt with accordingly.
There is no such system in England; yet the number of
prostitutes is less than on the Continent, where it is in vogue.
