Adolescence / by Stephen Paget.

  • Stephen Paget
Date:
1917
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Credit: Adolescence / by Stephen Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with some children, that we ought to make them, not wait for them. I do not altogether like the word “initiate”; yet I have in my imagination some special day set and appointed for a grave little home-ceremony ; the whole thing well thought out, the exhortation written down beforehand, every word of it. The occasion of telling boys and girls the truth about their bodily nature would thus be made solemn and memorable, as an act of their lives. I have been reading again that scene in Tom Brown's Schooldays, where the Squire gives
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