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SEX-EDUCATION
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PRINCE A. MORROW
Chief organizer of the American movement for sex-education. Physician,educator, author, social reformer. Born in Kentucky, December 19, 1864.Died in New York City, March 17, 1913.
SEX-EDUCATION
A SERIES OF LECTURES CONCERNING
KNOWLEDGE OF SEX IN ITS RELATION
TO HUMAN LIFE
BY
MAURICE A. BIGELOW
PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY AND DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL
OF PRACTICAL ARTS, TEACHERS COLLEGE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1916,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1916.
Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
THE MEMORY OF
DR. PRINCE A. MORROW
WHOSE GREAT FAITH IN THE ESSENTIAL GOODNESS OF HUMAN
NATURE LED HIM TO BELIEVE THAT THE PROBLEMS OF
SEX HAVE ARISEN FROM IGNORANCE AND
THAT EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO
THEIR SOLUTION
PREFATORY NOTE
Many of the lectures printed in this volume have formed the basis of aseries given at Teachers College, Columbia University, during thesummer sessions of 1914 and 1915, and during the academic year1914-1915. Others were addressed to parents, to groups of men, towomen's clubs, and to conferences on sex-education. In order to avoidextensive repetition, there has been some combination and rearrangementof lectures that original