sacred, and holy and spiritual function _that
it is_, disease and sinfulness would disappear as the mist before the
sun.

In the meantime the subject must be discussed from all points of view.

It must be permitted to thrive in the light and thus it will flower
into the perfection of the spiritual seed that generated it.

In the meantime, the debasement of all things connected with sex must
be aired, discussed, and weeded out, until a sane and normal and
reverential recognition of the universality and the eternality of Sex,
is engendered in the minds of men and women and growing youths and
transmitted to the children yet unborn.

"Sex contains all," says Walt Whitman. "Bodies, souls, meanings,
proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, songs, commands,
health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; all hopes,
benefactions, bestowals; all the passions, loves, beauties, delights
of earth; all the governments, judges, gods, followed persons of the
earth; these are contained in sex as parts of itself and justification
of itself.

"Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his
sex; without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers."

Many well-meaning persons see in the words of the "good grey poet,"
only an immodest and brazen shamelessness. But these are mental
perverts and are to be pitied; they see "through a glass darkly" and
everything looks black with decay; they are trying to build an eternal
future upon a foundation of tissue paper; they are seeking to
encompass immortal life by denying the very beginning and source of
all life--Sex; they are attempting the impossible feat of foisting
upon the world an ideal of Heaven from which they have extracted the
very essence of Heaven itself, although nothing on earth or from
divine sources justifies such an idea.

Possibly our civilization has proceeded on the plan of leaving until
the last the most important thing in an ideal community and it may be
that we shall do the necessary reform work in this department all the
more thoroughly for having so long neglected it.

In the following chapters the physiological and hygienic side of the
subject has been avoided as there is much sound advice already issued
pertaining to this phase of the sex question, and it is our contention
that the world must be brought to recognize the spiritual, and sacred
function of Sex, as the basis of reformation or regeneration, before
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