The facts of gestation would of course be included.

When this stage was reached it would be easy to pass on to the human species with the statement: "Just in the same way as the calf develops in the cow so the child develops in the mother's body." It is difficult not to recognize the force of Maria Lischnewska's argument, and it seems highly probable that, as she asserts, the instruction proposed lies in the course of our present path of progress.

Such instruction would be formal, unemotional, and impersonal; it would be given not as specific instruction in matters of sex, but simply as a part of natural history.

It would supplement, so far as mere knowledge is concerned, the information the child had already received from its mother.

But it would by no means supplant or replace the personal and intimate relationship of confidence between mother and child.
That is always to be aimed at, and though it may not be possible among the ill-educated masses of to-day, nothing else will adequately take its place.
There can be no doubt, however, that while in the future the school will most probably be regarded as the proper place in which to teach the elements of physiology--and not as at present a merely emasculated and effeminated physiology--the introduction of such reformed teaching is as yet impracticable in many communities.