uch von Kinde_ (_The
Book of the Child_), edited by Adele Schreiber, vol. ii, Leipzig,
1907, p. 48.

[137] _Versuch einer Charakteristik des weiblichen Geschlechtes_
(_Attempt at a Characterization of the Female Sex_), Hanover,
1797, vol. i. p. 95.

[138] Pougin, _Dictionnaire du Theatre_, Paris, 1885, p. 715.

[139] The description of such a mental state will be found in a
diary, shown to Nystroem by a young friend of his, and published
by the former in his work on _The Sexual Life and its Laws_ (_Das
Geschlechtsleben und seine Gesetze_), Berlin, 1904, p. 129.

[140] Moll, _Aerztliche Ethik_, Stuttgart, 1902, pp. 220-31.

[141] Theologians are not agreed as to when the "age of reason"
is attained. Gousset, in his _Moraltheologie zum Gebrauch der
Pfarrer und Beichtvaeter_ (German translation of the seventh
edition of a French work, _Moral Theology for the Use of Priests
and Father-Confessors_), Aix, 1852, vol. ii. p. 244, demands that
children should go to confession as soon as they are seven years
of age; other authorities consider that the "age of reason"
begins only in the last years of childhood.

[142] _L'Amour_, 5th ed., Paris, 1861, p. 72.

[143] From what has been said before, it will have become evident
that the question has different aspects in different strata of
the population. I have attempted merely to formulate general
principles, not to furnish an answer for every possible concrete
question. Differences between town and country, between richer
and poorer, between cultured and uncultured, must be given due
consideration. In the case of those belonging to the less
cultured and the poorer strata of society, a special use in this
connexion may be found for those social institutions which have
of late come into being in various localities as the fruit of
voluntary effort [corresponding to our Children's Care Committees,
&c., in England--TRANSLATOR], and conducted by women of the cultured and
well-to-do classes. These institutions may be utilised for imparting the
sexual enlightenment, at any rate in so far as they permit of an
individual study of the child-psyche.

[144] _Sexuelle Belehrung der aus der Volksschule entlassenen
Maedchen_ (_The Sexual Instruction of Girls Leaving the Elementary
School_), Leipzig, 1907.

[145] Among others by K. Hoeller: "Die Aufgabe der Volksschule"
("The Task of the Elementary School"), _Proceedings of the Third
Congress of the German Society for the Suppression of