At this moment, wavering between the laws of Nature and social conventions, she scarcely knows if nakedness should, or should not, affright her.

A sort of confused atavistic memory recalls to her a period before clothing was known, and reveals to her as a paradisaical ideal the customs of that human epoch" (Celine Renooz, _Psychologie Comparee de l'Homme et de la Femme_, pp.

85-87).

Perhaps this was obscurely felt by the German girl (mentioned in Kalbeck's _Life of Brahms_), who said: "One enjoys music twice as much _decolletee_." From the point of view with which we are here essentially concerned there are three ways in which the cultivation of nakedness--so far as it is permitted by the slow education of public opinion--tends to exert an influence: (1) It is an important element in the sexual hygiene of the young, introducing a wholesome knowledge and incuriosity into a sphere once given up to prudery and pruriency.

(2) The effect of nakedness is beneficial on those of more mature age, also, in so far as it tends to cultivate the sense of beauty and to furnish the tonic and consoling influences of natural vigor and grace.