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SEX IN EDUCATION.
I did not, however, realize at first that this was the universal law of the land, and that it pointed to something more than climate as a cause. But the first school that I saw, en masse , gave a startling impetus to the train of observation and influence into which I was unconsciously falling. It was a Sunday school in the little town of Wolfville, which lies between the Gaspereau and Cornwallis Rivers, just beyond the meadows of the Grand Pr6, where lived Gabriel Lajeunesse, and Benedict Bellefontaine, and the rest of the ‘ simple Acadian farmers.’ I arrived too early at one of the village churches ; and, while I was waiting for a sexton, a door opened, and our poured the Sunday school, whose services had just ended. On they came, dividing in the centre, and falling to the right and left about me, thirty or forty boys and girls, between the ages of seven and fifteen. They all had fair skins, red cheeks, and clear eyes ; they were all broad-shouldered, straight, and sturdy; the younger ones were more than sturdy, — they were fat, from the ankles up.