| BY THE SAME AUTHOR |
| STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX |
| Six Volumes |
| Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company |
| MAN AND WOMAN |
| London: Walter Scott |
| New York: Charles Scribners' Sons |
| THE TASK OF SOCIAL HYGIENE |
| London: Constable and Company |
| Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company |
| IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS |
| First and Second Series |
| London: Constable and Company |
| Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company |
| BY MRS. HAVELOCK ELLIS |
| THE NEW HORIZON IN LOVE AND LIFE |
| With a Preface by EDWARD CARPENTER |
| and an Introduction by MARGUERITE TRACY |
| London: A. and C. Black, Ltd. |
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COPYRIGHT 1922
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In these Essays—little, indeed, as I know them to be, compared to themagnitude of their subjects—I have tried to set forth, as clearly as Ican, certain fundamental principles, together with their practicalapplication to the life of our time. Some of these principles were stated,more briefly and technically, in my larger Studies of sex; others weretherein implied but only to be read between the lines. Here I haveexpressed them in simple language and with some detail. It is my hope thatin this way they may more surely come into the hands of young people,youths and girls at the period of adolescence, who have been present to mythoughts in all the studies I have written of sex because I was myself ofthat age when I first vaguely planned them. I would prefer to leave totheir judgment the question as to whether this book is suitable to beplaced in the hands of older people. It might only give them pain. It isin youth that the questions of mature age can alone be settled, if theyever are to be settled, and unless we begin to think about adult problemswhen we are young all our thinking is likely to be in vain. Th