Physiologically Guided For Sex Education

The attention of the reader is called to the definition of "education"on the twentieth page. It is there stated, that, throughout thisessay, education is not used in the limited sense of mental orintellectual training alone, but as comprehending the whole manner oflife, physical and psychical, during the educational period; that is,following Worcester's comprehensive definition, as comprehendinginstruction, discipline, manners, and habits. This, of course,includes home-life and social life, as well as school-life; balls andparties, as well as books and recitations; walking and riding, as muchas studying and sewing. When a remission or intermission is necessary,the parent must decide what part of education shall be remitted oromitted,--the walk, the ball, the school, the party, or all of these.None can doubt which will interfere most with Nature's laws,--fourhours' dancing, or four hours' studying. These remarks may beunnecessary. They are made because some who have noticed this essayhave spoken of it as if it treated only of the school, and seem tohave forgotten the just and comprehensive signification in whicheducation is used throughout this memoir. Moreover, it may be well toremind the reader, even at the risk of casting a reflection upon hisintelligence, that, in these pages, the relation of sex to mature lifeis not discussed, except in a few passages, in which the largecapacities and great power of woman are alluded to, provided the epochof development is physiologically guided.