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were continued in man accompanied by a feeling
of shame as a characteristic of animal life,
it would be just the same if it were regarded
as a degrading duty, reluctantly carried out
for the preservation of the species.
Antiquity stood higher than the present day,
for example when Lycurgus’ laws asserted
that a people’s strength lies in the breast
of blooming womanhood. Accordingly in
Sparta, the physical development of the
woman was watched over as well as of the man,
and the age of marriage was determined with
reference to a healthy offspring. Higher,
too, stood Judaism in relation to the
conception of the seriousness of bearing children.
This conviction expressed itself in the strictest
hygienic legislation known to history.
Jewish, like other Oriental legislation,
depended, in relation to sexual morality as in
relation to diet, on sharp-sighted observations
of natural law and disease. The foundation
to a new ethic in these questions cannot be
laid, until men begin with Old Testament
shrewdness and Old Testament seriousness to
handle the life questions which the idealism
of Christianity has indeed spiritualised but at
the same time debased.
This new ethic will call no other common
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