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both preying especially upon the sexual principle and its designed results.*
The physiological characteristics and requirements of the forming female have been so adequately stated by recent writers f in reference to mental hygiene, and are now so generally familiar, that it is not necessary that they should be re-stated here.
An inimical influence upon brain or lower organ, that has its origin in education, is equally inimical if it occur identically in industry. That such identity does occur, and that industry presents in addition its own peculiar phases of sexual unfriendliness, it will be my effort to show.
* “ Woman, in the interest of the race, is dowered with a set of organs peculiar to herself, whose complexity, delicacy, sympathies, and force are among the marvels of creation. If properly nurtured and cared for, they are a source of strength and power to her : if neglected and mismanaged, they retaliate upon their possessor with weakness and disease, as well of the mind as of the body.” — Prof. Edward H. Clarke: Sex in Education, p. 33.
t Edward II. Clarke, M.D., Sex in Education; T. A. Gorton, M.D., Principles of Mental Hygiene; Henry Maudsley, M.D., Sex in Mind and Education; Ely Van de Waiker; Popular Science Monthly, February, 1875.