To profess to accept the unity of the moral law, but at the same time seek to avoid its consequences, is hypocrisy. The moral law cannot be evaded by any metaphysical creation of ‘noble moral paradoxes.’[15] Any attempt to define purity as unequally binding on the sexes by being ‘more for women, but not less for men,’ is worse than nonsense, it is dangerous sophistry. It is a confusion of right and wrong, placing men and women on diverging paths which will lead them ever farther apart. It is a strange spectacle, the nineteenth-century Adam cowering under the overpowering justice of the moral law, seeking refuge behind a paradox! But the weak and erring children of one Great Creator, bound to live together and help or injure one another, must not be turned away from each other by the arrogance or ignorance of any portion of the race. What mortal can determine the varying kind and quality of temptations which assail another mortal life? Who shall dare to say to another, You are not tempted as I am? Who can measure the weakness or the strength of another soul, and measure out judgment by shifting standards of right and wrong? Only by humility can we gain wisdom. Only by doing the will of the Creator shall we learn the doctrine of truth. FOOTNOTES: [14] ‘At a meeting of the British Association, held September 7, 1886, the eminent African explorer, Mr. Joseph Thompson, spoke boldly of the evil influence of Europeans in Africa, remarking that it has been terrible, and that for one negro influenced for good by missionaries there were a thousand who had been driven to deeper degradation. We supplied them still with an incredible quantity of gin, rum, gunpowder, and guns.’ [15] See the _Spectator_, July 31, 1886. THE MORAL EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG IN RELATION TO SEX CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 177 CHAPTER I PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS WHICH INFLUENCE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL GROWTH OF SEX 180 CHAPTER II SOCIAL RESULTS OF NEGLECTING THESE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS 206 CHAPTER III THE HYGIENIC ADVANTAGE OF SEXUAL MORALITY 240 CHAPTER IV METHODS BY WHICH SEXUAL MORALITY MAY BE PROMOTED 259 APPENDIX I 306 APPENDIX II 308 INTRODUCTION