Excerpt from Know Thyself
Many of these parents now clearly see the shortcomings in their home training on the part of their forebears and do not intend to perpetuate them in the treatment of their own families. Would that the number of such parents were mightily increased! Would that the false modesty or thoughtlessness or indifference in this direction might come to a perpetual end!
Mrs. Mary E. Teats, the national evangelist of purity of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, forcibly and justly says: "The subject is as pure as God is pure." And with her, Marion Harland and a great and increasing host of noble men and women, in all ranks of society, heartily agree. We have learned as sociologists and penologists that ignorance is the mother of superstition, of vice, of crime, of disease and of every species of impurity. "My people perish for lack of knowledge,'' said Jehovah in the Old Testament. Our jails and penitentiaries and reformatories and insane asylums and institutions for the feeble-minded are filled with inmates who began the course thither because of their dense ignorance of the laws of their physical organisms. Untold wretchedness and misery have been entailed upon countless thousands of human beings from the same cause.
I wish in closing to impress anew the thought that no true knowledge of the human frame, so fearfully and wonderfully made - the masterpiece of creative wisdom, power and love - can ever lead to indelicacy of thought or action.
I again earnestly commend this volume as a brave, reverent, exhaustive and practical compendium upon the profound and far-reaching questions with which it deals.
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