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56 The Century of the Child
must learn to have reverence and patience,
and I know men who have shown these char-
acteristics really because they saw that their
wives gave, as is not unfrequently the case,
their souls and their hearts before their senses
were awakened. Only the constant close as-
sociation taught them to desire a completed
marriage. A child should receive life only
through this common impulse. Many chil-
dren are born, as it is, in legalised prostitution,
in legalised rape. Yet there is wanting in
the consciences of many women and men, the
slightest shadow of religious reverence, of
aesthetic feeling before the greatest mystery of
existence. And yet we continue in the name
of morality to veil for youth the nakedness
of nature and we neglect to inspire their feel-
ing of devotion towards their own being as
the shrine in which the mystery of life must
some day be fulfilled.
In this mystery there are still hidden fields
only penetrated by the intuition. Here and
there a profound poet has surmised the in-
numerable affinities or repulsions which under
changing spiritual and material dispositions
with altering opinions, condition the life of
love in modern human beings, the mystic in-
fluences which sometimes forever, sometimes
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