esty is the feeling of the primitive harmony of nature and
spirit, and it is very decidedly active in children, however
unconstrained they are with regard to nature. True modesty is as far
removed from coarseness as from prudery. Coarseness takes a delight in
making the relation of the sexes the subject of ambiguous, witty,
shameless talking and jesting, and it is just as blamable as prudery,
which externally affects an innocence no longer existing therein. Here
is, consequently, the point in which physical education must pass over
into moral education, and where the purity of the heart must hallow the
body."

[12] A friend of undoubted accuracy testifies to a case where acute
dysmenorrhoea and menorrhagia, begun in over-excitement and tight
clothing, and aggravated by the very cause above-mentioned, gradually
yielded to regular and nutritious food, a rational mode of dressing,
regular sleep, and to the regular brain-work which gave sufficient
employment to the over-excited imagination.

[13] Rosenkranz refers here, of course, only to the antique, and to the
products of modern art which breathe the true spirit of the antique; for
it is unfortunately quite possible to find a Joaquin Miller and a
Charles Reade, or a Tupper and a T. S. Arthur, in painting and sculpture
as well as in literature.

[14] Plato, _Rep._, Book III.

[15] "The great mental revolution which occurs at puberty may go beyond
its physiological limits in some instances, and become pathological. The
vague feelings, blind longings, and obscure impulses which then arise in
the mind, attest the awakening of an impulse which knows not its aim; a
kind of vague and yearning melancholy is engendered, which leads to an
abandonment to poetry of a gloomy, Byronic kind, or to indulgence in
indefinite religious feelings and aspirations. There is a want of some
object to fill the void in the feelings, to satisfy the undefined
yearning--a need of something to adore; consequently, when there is no
visible object of worship, the Invisible is adored. The time of this
mental revolution is, at best, a trying period for youth; and when there
is an inherited infirmity of nervous organization, the natural
disturbance of the mental balance may easily pass into actual
destruction of it. * * * * * What such patients need to learn is, _not
the indulgence but a forgetfulness of their feelings, not the
observation but the renunciation of self, not introspection but useful
acti