simultaneous development of intelligence, bodily and technical
exercises, aesthetics, moral and social sentiments and will. Without
frightening them with the specter of eternal punishment, and without
alluring them by the promise of paradise after death, they will have
been taught that the object of our transient individual existence is
continual effort to attain a pure human ideal. They will have learnt
to find the truest satisfaction in the accomplishment of their
different duties, and in work in common for the benefit of society.
They will also have learnt to despise frivolity and luxury, to attach
no importance to personal property and to put all their ambition into
the quantity and quality of their work.

The sexual appetite will manifest itself in different individuals at
different ages. Trained from childhood not to yield to every desire,
but to subordinate their appetites to the welfare of the community,
they will not yield immediately. Moreover, they will know the
signification of this appetite. They will also know that their
patience will not be tried too long, and that they may speak openly on
sexual subjects to their masters and parents and even to their
companions of the opposite sex.

What will be the consequences of such a state of things? Attachments
will be formed early. But, instead of making all kinds of calculations
concerning money, social position, etc.; instead of concealing their
thoughts in the form of conventional politeness; instead of avoiding
an honest explanation of the knotty point, or, at the most passing
over this explanation like a cat on hot cinders; instead of trying to
dazzle by their charms the one they wish to capture, the lovers of the
future will be much more frank because they will have less reason to
dissimulate. They will exchange plans for the future, and will
mutually test each other's constancy and loyalty without fear of
scandal and slander.

The two sexes will be able to enter into free relations with each
other, first of all because they will both be instructed in sexual
life, and secondly, because manners and customs will be more free.
Without actual sexual intercourse, two lovers will thus be able to see
whether their temperaments are well adapted to each other.

Then, thanks to its liberty, the period of betrothal will allow a free
interchange of ideas on life between the parties concerned, so that
they will soon find out whether they are likely or not to live
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