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ii8 The Century of the Child
conditions favourable to it, may be revived,
although in the majority of people a deep
physical antipathy to man-eating is innate.
Conscious incest, despite similar deviations,
must also be physically contrary to the ma-
jority, and in a number of women, modesty
—
the unity between body and soul in relation to
love—is an incontestable provision of nature.
So too a minority would find it physically im-
possible to murder or steal. With this list I
have exhausted everything which mankind,
since its conscious history began, has really so
intimately acquired that the achievement is
passed on in its flesh and blood. Only this
kind of conquest can really stand up against
temptation in every form.
A deep physiological truth is hidden in the
use of language when one speaks of un-
chained passions; the passions, under the pre-
vailing system of education, are really only
beasts of prey imprisoned in cages.
While fine words are spoken about individ-
ual development, children are treated as if
their personality had no purpose of its own,
as if they were made only for the pleasure,
pride, and comfort of their parents; and as
these aims are best advanced when children be-
come like every one else, people usually begin
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