state and have not been published.  I quote a few brief characteristic passages:  “Is not,” he wrote, “the Hindu refusal to see a woman eating strangely like ours to see one naked?  The real sensuality of the thought is visibly identical....  Suppose, because they are delicious to eat, pineapples were forbidden to be seen, except in pictures, and about that there was something dubious.  Suppose no one might have sight of a pineapple unless he were rich enough to purchase one for his particular eating, the sight and the eating being so indissolubly joined.  What lustfulness would surround them, what constant pruriency, what stealing!...  Miss ——­ told us of her Syrian adventures, and how she went into a wood-carver’s shop and he would not look at her; and how she took up a tool and worked, till at last he looked, and they both burst out laughing.  Will it not be even so with our looking at women altogether?  There will come a work—­and at last we shall look up and both burst out laughing....  When men see truly what is amiss, and act with reason and forethought in respect to the sexual relations, will they not insist on the enjoyment of women’s beauty by youths, and from the earliest age, that the first feeling may be of beauty?  Will they not say, ’We must not allow the false purity, we must have the true.’  The false has been tried, and it is not good enough; the power purely to enjoy beauty must be gained; attempting to do with less is fatal.  Every instructor of youth shall say:  ’This beauty of woman, God’s chief work of beauty, it is good you see it; it is a pleasure that serves good; all beauty serves it, and above all this, for its office is to make you pure.  Come to it as you come to daily bread, or pure air, or the cleansing bath:  this is pure to you if you be pure, it will aid you in your effort to be so.  But if any of you are impure, and make of it the feeder of impurity, then you should be ashamed and pray; it is not for you our life can be ordered; it is for men and not for beasts.’  This must come when men open their eyes, and act coolly and with reason and forethought, and not in mere panic in respect to the sexual passion in its moral relations.”

FOOTNOTES: 

[40] Thus Athenaeus (Bk. xiii, Ch.  XX) says:  “In the Island of Chios it is a beautiful sight to go to the gymnasia and the race-courses, and to see the young men wrestling naked with the maidens who are also naked.”

[41] Augustine (De civitate Dei, lib. ii, cap.  XIII) refers to the same point, contrasting the Romans with the Greeks who honored their actors.

[42] See “The Evolution of Modesty” in the first volume of these Studies, where this question of the relationship of nakedness to modesty is fully discussed.

[43] C.H.  Stratz, Die Koerperformen in Kunst und Leben der Japaner, Second edition, Ch.  III; id., Frauenkleidung, Third edition, pp. 22, 30.