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tion: its nature, its evi<strong>de</strong>nce and law." 1) Ja reeds werd al-<br />

daar een geheele school van medici gevormd als 1)r. Sylvester<br />

Graham, N) Dr. E. P. Miller 1), die verzekeren : „that entire<br />

abstinence from sexual functions through a whole life is not<br />

only more healthful than ordinary marriage, but is really<br />

conducive to the highest vigour."<br />

Ten onzent wordt nu eerst (of helaas ! reeds) openlijk be-<br />

kend en gepopulariseerd, wat vóór tientallen van jaren in<br />

Frankrijk in praktijk gebracht, in Engeland ver<strong>de</strong>digd werd.<br />

Gelukkig komt nu ook door <strong>de</strong>zelf<strong>de</strong> kanalen het tegengif.<br />

Zoo lever<strong>de</strong> Prof. Newman in zijn „Relation of Physiology<br />

to Sexual morals" 4) een zoo uitnemend vertoog tegen „ the<br />

doctrine which I call the mo<strong>de</strong>rn heresy the doctrine, that<br />

strict sexual abstinence is a physical evil tending to disease."<br />

Aldus bestre<strong>de</strong>n : „The sexual appetite, of which medical men 7)<br />

make so much, is the smallest part of the problem presented to<br />

us in sexual morals. Nothing is simpler than its treatment, nor<br />

will the appetite fail to be amenable. We have only to keep away<br />

each food and drink as will stimulate it, and whatever may make<br />

puberty premature : also, it is needful to give to the growing boy<br />

or strong young man a sufficiency of bodily toil. But if the more<br />

appetite be successfully kept at its normal condition, that condition<br />

is one which at best needs constant restraint. Meanwhile,<br />

1) Boston : Little Brown en CO. 1868. Zie o. a. blz. 60 on<strong>de</strong>r <strong>de</strong> 10 „ causes<br />

of this general turpitu<strong>de</strong>" bovenaan.<br />

1. The low morale of the community as regards the guilt of the crime.<br />

2. The doctrines of political economists.<br />

^) Lectures to young men on chastity. Lectures on the science of human life.<br />

3) Fountain of Youth.<br />

4) Tri beer en CO. London. One Shilling. p. 17, 31, 16.<br />

5) Tot eer <strong>de</strong>r Ne<strong>de</strong>rlandsche medici zij opgemerkt, dat zoover mij bekend<br />

is, geen hunner nog opentljk die „ mo<strong>de</strong>rne hygiënische dwaalleer" heeft in<br />

bescherming genomen, en tot nu toe slechts dilettanten en. anonymi ze in<br />

geschrifte ver<strong>de</strong>digen.

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