Physical culture . were from ten tofifteen years of age. Those boys and girls, she said, aremembers of an interesting Norwegianfamily, who live on an island. It is afamily of artists, pi aye rf oik and farmersall in one. On their island they live afree natural life, and the children, whoare like little fish, are in the water, alarge part of the warm season. To them, the unclothed body is the same as theclothed. They are taught to believethat the body itself is pure and notevil, and, of course, they are unable to seeevil in it. It is impossible to advocate this Nor-wegian case in a general sens
Physical culture . were from ten tofifteen years of age. Those boys and girls, she said, aremembers of an interesting Norwegianfamily, who live on an island. It is afamily of artists, pi aye rf oik and farmersall in one. On their island they live afree natural life, and the children, whoare like little fish, are in the water, alarge part of the warm season. To them, the unclothed body is the same as theclothed. They are taught to believethat the body itself is pure and notevil, and, of course, they are unable to seeevil in it. It is impossible to advocate this Nor-wegian case in a general sense, because ofthe usual conditions of the average lifeIt does, however, prove what can be doneby broad, fearless parents whose mindsare not morally warped. If you are aparent be fearless with your boys andgirls, and banish from their minds all thesupposed impropriety that belongs to thebody. Your reward will be, in seeingthem grow up clean and with a strengthand education that shall enable them toavoid the The Iron/ after group in marble by Lanson(Luxembourg Museum, Paris) ——=———?———~^^imz:^^
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