IX.
[47] Duehren (_Neue Forshungen ueber die Marquis de Sade_, pp.

432 et seq.) shows how the ascetic view of woman's body persisted, for instance, in Schopenhauer and De Sade.
[48] In "The Evolution of Modesty," in the first volume of these _Studies_, and again in the fifth volume in discussing urolagnia in the study of "Erotic Symbolism," the mutual reactions of the sexual and excretory centres were fully dealt with.
[49] "La Morale Sexuelle," _Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle_, Jan., 1907.
[50] The above passage, now slightly modified, originally formed an unpublished part of an essay on Walt Whitman in _The New Spirit_, first issued in 1889.
[51] Even in the ninth century, however, when the monastic movement was rapidly developing, there were some who withstood the tendencies of the new ascetics.

Thus, in 850, Ratramnus, the monk of Corbie, wrote a treatise (_Liber de eo quod Christus ex Virgine natus est_) to prove that Mary really gave birth to Jesus through her sexual organs, and not, as some high-strung persons were beginning to think could alone be possible, through the more conventionally decent breasts.

The sexual organs were sanctified.

"Spiritus sanctus ...