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(1914) Author: Emma Goldman
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The Awakening of Spring 119
The critics also could see naught in Wedekind,
except a base, perverted, almost diabolic nature
bereft of all finer feeling. But professional critics
seldom see below the surface; else they would
discover beneath the grin and satire of Frank
Wedekind a sensitive soul, deeply stirred by the
heart-rending tragedies about him. Stirred and
grieved especially by the misery and torture of
the child, the helpless victim unable to explain
the forces germinating in its nature, often crushed
and destroyed by mock modesty, sham decencies,
and the complacent morality that greet its blind
gropings.
Never was a more powerful indictment hurled
against society, which out of sheer hypocrisy and
cowardice persists that boys and girls must grow
up in ignorance of their sex functions, that they
must be sacrificed on the altar of stupidity and
convention which taboo the enlightenment of the
child in questions of such elemental importance
to health and well-being.
The most criminal phase of the indictment, how
ever, is that it is generally the most promising
children who are sacrificed to sex ignorance and
to the total lack of appreciation on the part of
teachers of the latent qualities and tendencies in
the child: the one slaying the body and soul, the
other paralyzing the function of the brain; and

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