A small minority of two only (Rabbi Adler and Mrs.Lynn Lynton) were against such knowledge, while among the majority in favor of it were Mme.

Adam, Thomas Hardy, Sir Walter Besant, Bjoernson, Hall Caine, Sarah Grand, Nordau, Lady Henry Somerset, Baroness von Suttner, and Miss Willard.

The leaders of the woman's movement are, of course, in favor of such knowledge.

Thus a meeting of the Bund fuer Mutterschutz at Berlin, in 1905, almost unanimously passed a resolution declaring that the early sexual enlightenment of children in the facts of the sexual life is urgently necessary (_Mutterschutz_, 1905, Heft 2, p.

91).