The boy is normally clean and wholesome. His first question regarding the origin of life is a good question. When denied wholesome information, the further investigation which often follows is indicative of desirable qualities of character. Later, though disturbed by false ideas which have been forced upon him, he still wishes to be clean and strong. He desires to master low passions. He would rather have muscular strength and endurance and energy and will power and courage and chivalry than any amount of money. He shudders at the thought of causing suffering to an innocent woman or child. He would sacrifice his life for the girl whom he regards as the personification of loveliness and purity. If we will but deal with him fairly and honestly, he will see in birth an ever-recurring miracle; he will regard his body as a sacred temple; he will see in sex power a source of richer and fuller life; he will respect women; he will regard marriage as the most sacred relationship in life. Thus noble manhood, a nation's greatest asset, will in large measure be achieved. FOOTNOTES: [41] John L. Alexander (editor), _Boy Training._ Association Press, New York, especially pp. 11 to 22. [42] _Pedagogical Seminary_, vol. IX, no. 3. Worcester, Massachusetts. [43] G. Stanley Hall, _Adolescence_, vol. I, p. 459. [44] Prince A. Morrow in the _Transactions_ (vol. I, p. 88) of the American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis. [45] Charles Wagner, _The Simple Life_, p. 181. (McClure, Phillips & Co.) Caleb Williams Saleeby, _Parenthood and Race Culture._ (Moffat, Yard & Co.) Francis G. Peabody, _Jesus Christ and the Social Question_, p. 162. (Grosset & Dunlap.) [46] "What my Boy Knows," _American Magazine_, New York, April, 1913. [47] Robert E. Speer, _Young Men Who Overcame_, p. 21. (Fleming H. Revell Co., Chicago.) [48] Charles Wagner, _Youth_, pp. 248-50. [49] Charles Wagner, _Youth_, p. 246. [50] _The Boy Problem_, Educational Pamphlet no. 4, p. 26, of the American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, 105 West 40th Street, New York. [51] Jane Addams, _The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets_, p. 20. The Macmillan Company, New York. [52] Emerson, _Education_, p. 38. Riverside Monograph Series. [53] Henry Bryan Binns, _Abraham Lincoln_, p. 356. [54] Charles Kingsley, _The Roman and the Teuton_, p. 46. [55] Winfield S. Hall, M.D., _From Youth into Manhood_, p. 32. Association Press, New York. [56] Hall, _Reproduction and Sexual Hygiene._ [57] From an investigation conducted by Dr. Winfield S. Hall. [58] "A Social Emergency," First Annual Report of the Social Hygiene Society of Portland, Oregon, and the Bulletin of the Oregon Social Hygiene Society, vol. I, no. I. CHAPTER X TEACHING PHASES: FOR GIRLS _By Bertha Stuart_