[30] Noteworthy is the following utterance of a clergyman regarding the sensuality of country girls: “Young women are in no way behind young men in the strength of their fleshly lusts; they are only too willing to be seduced--so =willing= that even older girls frequently give themselves to half-grown boys, and =girls give themselves to several men in brief succession=. Moreover, it is by no means always the young men by whom the seduction is effected. Often enough =it is the girls who lure the lads to sexual intercourse=, in which case they do not wait till the lads come to their rooms, but they go themselves to the young men’s bedrooms, or wait for them in their beds.”--C. WAGNER, “The State of Affairs as Regards Sexual Morality among the Evangelical Agricultural Population of the German Empire,” vol. i., sec. 2, p. 213 (Leipzig, 1897). [31] E. Heinrich Kisch (“The Sexual Life of Woman,” English translation, Rebman, 1908) names the =ovaries= “regulators of the sexual impulse.” In the ovary, and in the periodical changes that occur in that organ, are to be found the fundamental cause, and the means of regulation, of the =sexual impulse=; in the clitoris is the seat of =voluptuous sensibility=. [32] Georg Hirth remarks very aptly (“Ways to Love,” Munich, 1906, p. 570): “For it is the task of the man to summon his whole power of self-command, to employ all his skill, to take all the care in his power, that the woman may be, as one says, ‘ready.’ The man who thinks only of his own gratification, and who leaves his partner ungratified, is a brutal being, or, if not brutal, he is simply ignorant of the harm he is doing.... In general, the man has the _tempo_ of gratification much better and more securely under control than the woman; in many women, indeed, the sexual orgasm is very difficult to induce, and in such cases the man must help with skill and tenderness.” CHAPTER VI THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE--RELIGION AND SEXUALITY “_The more dearly we understand how the indeterminate sexual attractive force of the most lowly organisms has, by a continuous addition of psychical elements, slowly developed into the love of the higher species of animals and of mankind, the sooner shall we be inclined to attribute to this sentiment the importance which it deserves. Then we shall no longer be able to regard it as an individual imagination, which has no relation to reality and no roots in the depths of life. It will become to us a measuring rule for the stage of evolution to which we have attained._”--CHARLES ALBERT. CONTENTS OF CHAPTER VI