78 THE WAY LIFE BEGINS 



human impulses of sex is a victory for both self and civiliza- 

 tion. It will be shown to youth that a clean, upreaching and 

 outspreading life is good in and of itself and carries its own 

 reward; that there is, indeed, an inner and sufficient reason 

 for what the race calls morality. 



A cold and impersonal policy of silence or of intolerance 

 supplies none of these aids; and the problem is too difficult 

 for many youths to solve unaided. Our help must be human 

 and individual; not in the old way, by crude, mass action, 

 merciless, torturing both the guilty and the innocent alike, 

 gaining here and losing there. Rather it should be as parent 

 to child, teacher to pupil, physician to his patient, prophet 

 to his people. 



