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vanquished, is surely an old story; surely, 

 too, how they teach fair-play, and in turn 

 learn it, as they learn courage also. These 

 elemental matters seen to, we are in a position 

 to proceed safely to higher stages. 



Let us set down our proposals clearly; 

 Starting with the moral ideas of courage and 

 kindness, we would discipline these in a 

 corresponding practical life-drama ; we would 

 supply the corresponding intellectual instruc- 

 tion as need and opportunity arise; and we 

 would have this carried out, as far as reason- 

 ably possible (and that is far), for and by both 

 sexes. In short, we would reverse much in 

 present codes and conventions of education, 

 that separate the children; that set but in- 

 tellectual tasks, irrelevant to their real life 

 and interests, which are of play; that either 

 istarve practical activities or teach too tame 

 and mechanical skills; that leave the un- 

 trained moral life, the inevitable sexual 

 interest, to their fate amid evil chances. 



IN SUMMARY. What we must aim at is 

 something positive, not negative ; at the culture 

 not of control merely, though that is much, 

 but of the chivalrous spirit as well. All 

 through civilisation the finest spirits have held 

 by the tradition of subliming sex-impulses by 

 associating them with the best that is in 

 us. Sex is the physical condition of the finest 

 possession we have; it offers opportunities 

 by which we can build nobility into our 

 lives. Our age is a difficult time of transition, 

 but we cannot believe that men are going to 

 drift away from the honouring of women or 

 from being able to love them out of a pure 



