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"Blood chemistry of our time is a marvel, undreamed of a generation ago.
Also, these achievements are a perfect example of the accomplished fact
contradicting a prior prediction and criticism. For it was one of the
accepted dogmas of the nineteenth century that the phenomena of living
could never be subjected to accurate quantitative analysis." But the
ethical dogmas of the past, no less than the scientific, may block the
way to true civilization.
Physiologically as well as psychologically the development of the human
being, the sane mind in the sound body, is absolutely dependent upon the
functioning and exercise of all the organs in the body. The "moralists"
who preach abstinence, self-denial, and suppression are relegated by
these findings of impartial and disinterested science to the class of
those educators of the past who taught that it was improper for young
ladies to indulge in sports and athletics and who produced generations
of feeble, undeveloped invalids, bound up by stays and addicted to
swooning and hysterics. One need only go out on the street of any
American city to-day to be confronted with the victims of the cruel
morality of self-denial and "sin." This fiendish "morality" is stamped
upon those emaciated bodies, indelibly written in those emasculated,
underdeveloped, undernourished figures of men and women, in the nervous
tension and unrelaxed muscles denoting the ceaseless vigilance in
restraining and suppressing the expression of natural impulses.
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