G.K. Chesterton on Contraception

"It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves."
(The Well and the Shallows, NY: Sheed & Ward, 1935, 233)

[Note: This comment was made five years after the Anglican Church passed a resolution at the 1930 Lambeth Conference approving the use of artificial contraception.]