Confidential talks with young women / by Lyman B. Sperry; with recommendatory note by Frances E. Willard.

  • Sperry, Lyman B. (Lyman Beecher), 1841-1923.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Confidential talks with young women / by Lyman B. Sperry; with recommendatory note by Frances E. Willard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTE BY FRANCES E. WILLARD. Science purifies everything it touches, and the scientific treatment of subjects that have been regarded as too delicate and personal for considera- tion in a book to be placed in the hands of young women, seems to be the solution of a difficult problem. All the laws of God are helpful and holy; and when those laws are written in our members, it is not only the highest wisdom but the most sacred duty of those who have the care of us in youth, to make us acquainted with them as soon as we are old enough to hear those wretched travesties that thoughtless people and young children are likely to foist upon us instead of the truth. If I were asked how early we should teach a girl the reality of her own being, I would answer, Just in time to set her mind to the right key before the