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  THE SEXUAL LIFE OF
  THE CHILD

  By
  Dr. Albert Moll

  TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY
  DR. EDEN PAUL

  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
  EDWARD L. THORNDIKE
  PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
  TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

  NEW YORK
  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  1919
  _All rights reserved_

  COPYRIGHT, 1912,
  BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

  Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1912.

  NORWOOD PRESS
  J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
  Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




INTRODUCTION


Dr. Moll is a gifted physician of long experience whose work with those
problems of medicine and hygiene which demand scientific acquaintance
with human nature has made him well known to experts in these fields. In
this book he has undertaken to describe the origin and development, in
childhood and youth, of the acts and feelings due to sex; to explain the
forces by which sex-responses are directed and misdirected; and to judge
the wisdom of existing and proposed methods of preventing the
degradation of a child's sexual life.

This difficult task is carried out, as it should be, with dignity and
frankness. In spite of the best intentions, a scientific book on
sex-psychology is likely to appear, at least in spots, to gratify a low
curiosity; but in Dr. Moll's book there is no such t