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his sex-impulses not only in relation to him- 

 self, not only in relation to another beside 

 himself, but in their racial and social conse- 

 quences, immediate and possible. 



SELF-CONTROL. Whether we look back 

 upon the course of evolution and see that 

 progress has been the reward of the controlled 

 and strenuous types; or take instruction 

 from the pathologists of the mind and learn 

 how easy it is to slip below the rational and 

 human level if the power of inhibition is 

 weak ; or read history and biography and the 

 counsels of the wise we reach the conclusion 

 that self-control makes for individual and 

 racial progress. 



While some men have very strong wills 

 and others have very subdued passions, 

 most men of average flesh and blood who 

 would live clean lives, need all the help they 

 can get, it may be from religious and moral 

 ideals, from artistic fastidiousness, or from a 

 feeling of social solidarity. Sex-impulses rise 

 with so much momentum within us, which 

 of us is sure that he will stand? Counsel 

 may be expressed in ethical or psychological, 

 in biological or medical phraseology, but it 

 always amounts to the same thing, and there 

 is no other way. Just as we go into training 

 if we are looking forward to some big effort, 

 so for the critical trials of life we have to train 

 in self-control, in enduring hardness, in doing 

 difficult things, in going through with some 

 task we do not like. Perhaps we may venture 

 to say, however, that we should not think too 

 much about this, but go at it cheerfully as 

 part of the day's work. We are meant to 



