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a sound and happy new generation, in which
the sufferings of present day sexual discord
should be brought to an end. For this purpose
he wished the collaboration of the schools.
They were to communicate the knowledge of
human beings as members of sex, and to
instruct their scholars how, as human beings,
they should protect themselves and their
posterity.
I objected at that time to this plan, showing
that the school was not the place to lay the
foundation for such knowledge. It should
be slowly and carefully communicated by the
mother herself; the school should only give
a theoretical basis. More defective still, I
found the question of chastity handled essentially
and solely as a question of bodily purity,
as a negative not a positive ideal. I maintain
that only erotic idealism could awaken
enthusiasm for chastity. The basis for such
idealism must be found in stories, history,
and belles-lettres. Information derived from
physiology is, in this respect, very inadequate,
unless the imagination and the feeling are
moved in the same direction. Neither imagination
nor feeling can be helped by natural
science and bodily exercises alone, and just
as little by Christian religious instruction.
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