It is perhaps a little late in the day to regard it as a question, but so it is among us, although three thousand five hundred years ago, the Egyptian father spoke to his child: "I have given you a mother who has carried you within her, a heavy burden, for your sake, and without resting on me.

When at last you were born, she indeed submitted herself to the yoke, for during three years were her nipples in your mouth.

Your excrements never turned her stomach, nor made her say, 'What am I doing ?' When you were sent to school she went regularly every day to carry the household bread and beer to your master.

When in your turn you marry and have a child, bring up your child as your mother brought you up."[20] I take it for granted, however, that--whatever doubt there may be as to the how or the when--no doubt is any longer possible as to the absolute necessity of taking deliberate and active part in this sexual initiation, instead of leaving it to the chance revelation of ignorant and perhaps vicious companions or servants.

It is becoming more and more widely felt that the risks of ignorant innocence are too great.
"All the love and solicitude parental yearning can bestow," writes Dr.G.F.Butler, of Chicago (_Love and its Affinities_, 1899, p.