is concerned, setting before us the consequences of deficient sex education in a form truly painful.

The young women and young men brought up in the American schools undertake, at an early age, the most dangerous sexual experiments. It fell to the Denver juvenile court, over which Judge Lindsey presides, to consider in the course of a single year the cases of 769 girls between 14 and 17 years of age, come for counsel after "offenses" of the sexual kind; of these, nearly a hundred were with child, and had long wavered between two courses: abortion, or the juvenile court?!

"Once there came to consult Lindsey a girl of eleven who had entered into relations with a young man. Lindsey says: The girl was no reckless wanton; but her sexual life had begun early, and she dared not confide in her parents nor in her teachers about it... We did all in our power to set this girl straight, until she became a good and beautiful young woman. But the credit for this happy development belongs in no way to her mother!..."

What, then, is the remedy?!

To this question there is but one answer: that we develop, so far as we are able and with all possible wisdom, the child's awareness on the one hand, and that we support this with fitting bodily education on the other. For the aim is to form a natural human being, living in the open air and the sun, taking his sufficient share of food and sleep, accustomed to sport, and clothed in a simple, sensible fashion. And when the young reach the stage of adolescence, they must be steeped in the principles of protection against the venereal diseases. I consider one of the foundations for directing youth toward that end to be education in common. No doubt this does not erase the sensual feeling from the souls of adolescents of both sexes,

but it helps greatly to straighten this instinct and to refine it. Young men and young women who train for life side by side, who study and play together, and who compete with one another in intelligence and ability, know the value of true friendship and of true health; and this is the good soil from which springs, later on, the fountain of true and solid love.

From all this I conclude by saying that the aim of sex education must be the preparation of a natural human being, drawing inspiration in this from the princi-ples of modern morality — those principles which do not rest upon fear and rebuke, but stand upon knowledge and upon the balance established between the powers of body and soul.

O fathers and mothers, undertake your children's sex education yourselves! Do not leave this task to bad tutors, or to servants, or to the companions of chance! And you, educators, beware of ignorance, and devote all your efforts to cultivating and training yourselves from the scientific side. Remember that a man's education begins from his birth, and that what must form the basis of this education is good example and affection. See to it that your children get their fill of air and sun; take care over their sleep and their feeding. Combat mixing in the sleeping quarters, and give your children separate beds and, if possible, separate rooms. You grown-ups, take the little ones into account: answer all their questions, with complete frank-ness, and in such a way that they understand you. Try to recognize, in the small creatures entrusted to you, their "sexual personality," and to serve it. See to it that an atmosphere of health and con-fidence prevails between parents and children, between educators and children, and between the children of the two sexes. Free the young from sexual fear.