Excerpt from The Origin of Life: A Girl's PhysiologyThis little book was designed to be a chapter in a physiology used by high school students. Such a chapter cannot at present - and perhaps not ever - be wisely incorporated in the text, but this fact does not obviate its necessity, or limit its usefulness.It is a long time now, since Huxley said of physiology texts that if they were to be inspected by visitors from another planet, or by a later age, it would be concluded that man had been a sexless a/nimal. We have finally learned that sex and its manifestations are not subjects to be avoided, but rather they are to be treated scientifically and Openly, so that from them as well as from the lesser facts of life, we may gather inspiration for better living and cleaner thinking. It is with this object in mind that this book has been prepared for my own students It is dedicated to the hundreds of girls in Grand Rapids Central High School whose sympathy has given the use of this book success, and whose appreciation has made the work a pleasure, with the hope that a better understanding of the wonder and sacredness of life may add to their preparation for living.If it may also serveto establish clearer ideals in the lives of other young women as well, it will fulfill all that the writer hopes for its use.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.