The organs of sex are to be held among sacred things.

They who approach these altars must come with devout minds.

Let the profane stand without, and the doors be closed." In those days, even for science, faith and intuition were alone possible.

It is only of recent years that the histologist's microscope and the physiological chemist's test-tube have furnished them with a rational basis.

It is no longer possible to cut Nature in two and assert that here she is pure and there impure.[50] There thus appears to be no adequate ground for agreeing with those who consider that the proximity of the generative and excretory centres is "a stupid bungle of Nature's." An association which is so ancient and primitive in Nature can only seem repulsive to those whose feelings have become morbidly unnatural.