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Page 207 - ... very responsible position in the college chapel, and I noticed that he wore that expression of sly reverence which I think I can now instantly detect when I see it in a man. "For the rest the dormitory was boisterous and lewd, and there was a good deal of bullying, which probably did little harm. My principal recollection now is of the filthy mystery of foul talk, that I neither cared for nor understood. What I really needed, like all the other boys, was a little timely help over the sexual problems,...
Page 264 - Wherever there is the slightest possibility for the human mind to hnow, there is a legitimate problem of science. Outside the field of actual knowledge can only lie a region of the vaguest opinion and imagination, to which unfortunately men too often, but still with decreasing prevalence, pay higher respect than to knowledge. We must here investigate a little more closely what the man of science means when he says,
Page 25 - Acharyas ; but the mother exceedeth a thousand fathers in the right to reverence and in the function of educator.
Page 5 - ... centers. Let the churches give of their facilities to provide amusement for children. Let the Board of Education extend its efforts in establishing more social centers in the public schools. Let the city provide clean dances, well chaperoned — as they are now in the public schools Social Centers. Sex Education. Many of the immoral influences and dangers which are constantly surrounding young children on the street, in their amusements, and in business life, may be counteracted and minimized...
Page 217 - ... illogical it may have been, there really was a justification for the old Christian identification of the flesh with the sexual instinct. They stand or fall (118) together: we cannot degrade the one and exalt the other. As our feelings towards nakedness are, so will be our feelings towards love. "Man is nothing else than fetid sperm, a sack of dung, the food of worms. . . . You have never seen a viler dung-hill.
Page 165 - If we have to investigate the comparative reaction of a man and a woman to any scientific test, we have to recognise that the woman lives on a curve, and that her exact position on the curve at a given moment may affect her superiority or inferiority to the man.