what they are about” before they engage in the sexual act, and be able to meet each other sanely, righteously, lovingly, because they both desire what each has to give to the other; in a way in which neither claims any rights, or makes any demands of the other—­in a word, in perfect concord of agreement and action, of which mutual love is the inspirer, and definite knowledge the directive agent.

Such a first meeting of bride and bridegroom will be no raping affair.  There will be no shock in it, no dread, no shame or thought of shame; but as perfectly as two drops of water flow together and become one, the bodies and souls of the parties to the act will mingle in a unity the most perfect and blissful that can ever be experienced by human beings in this world.  This is no dream!  It is a most blessed reality, which all normally made husbands and wives can attain to, if only they are properly taught and educated, if only they will learn how to reach such blissful condition.

However, such greatly desired status is not to be had for the asking merely. Instinct can never bring it about; “innocence" will never yield such a result; and force, or the declaration of a “right” in the premises will forever banish it to the realm of the never-to-be-realized.  It can only come as a result of clear-headed thinking, scientific investigation, honest study, wise and righteous action under the given conditions; and, above all, a love, each for the other, that knows no bounds.  All these things must obtain, on the part of both parties concerned, or the desired results can never be attained.

Having said which, here shall follow some suggestions as to how such estate may be reached by the readers of these pages.

But first, let us finish Dr. C., and all of his tribe—­banish them from all our reckoning in these matters, forever.

As already shown, this argument has not a leg to stand on.  These writers treat the whole situation as though men and women were mere animals!  Men and women are far more than mere animals, and God hath made them so!  And for these reasons we will have respect for men and women as God has made them, rather than as Dr. C. and the “purity leagues” say God should have made them!

As a matter of fact, the secondary function of sex in the human family is something far above mere animality; it is something that mere animals know nothing about, that they can never experience, or in any way attain to, and these fundamental differences in the premises remove the whole issue from the realm of comparison with any forms or functions of mere animal life.  As well reason that animals never eat cooked food, and so men ought never to eat cooked food (and there are some people who do so reason, strange to say) or that animals do not wear clothes, and so men ought not to wear clothes—­as well make these, or a score more of comparisons, between the human race and mere animals, as to try to compare them in the item of their sex functions.