Bellona Times
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Later, Mr. Ziegler comforts us a little as to German taste and thought by explaining that, in order to estimate the relationship of this play toward modern thought in Germany, it must be understood that Wiedkin's tragedy is merely one of the documents in a paper war which has resulted at last in having the physiology of sex taught in many German schools.
War measures, we find in history, are usually to be apologized for, but not repeated in times of peace.
However all this may be, if it be deemed necessary to tell all to children, why should not the fathers and mothers undertake this more or less disagreeable task?
Why need the public be dragged in to assist at this function?
Do not fathers remember enough of their boyhood, and mothers enough of their girlhood,
to guard their children either by explanation or by watching if a man or woman has married a degenerate is not he or she capable of watching for the same in the children and training it out of said children in short is there no private method of doing these things
not making them private because of any innate wickedness in things natural of any prudery in audience or reader, but simply on the ground of the unpleasantness of the subject.
Many physical things are unpleasant, and so are kept decently in the background.
Why not the subject discussed so very frankly in The Awakening of Spring?
Are we not sufficiently afflicted with nauseating horrors in the pages of the daily press, the source, we are told, of Mr. Weedkin's inspiration?
Are not the medical advertisements with the attached pictures of the dreadful-looking people who have been cured of various unspeakable diseases, people so very ugly that on aesthetic grounds they should have been let die at once, are not these things a sufficient punishment?
Has not humanity to endure many of these physical, mental, and moral horrors in their own persons, and is not this enough without having, in addition, to meet them in literature on the stage, and consequently in everyday talk?
Has Mr. Ziegler done anything toward the uplift of the country, or toward the gaiety of nations by this translation?
Does he think that already America has become what it bids fair to become, a people so mongrel that degeneracy will be the common inheritance?
One more word of comfort we find in the Proem to Prudes.
Mr. Ziegler says, As a play, the awakening of spring stands unique in the annals of dramatic art.
As the old darkies say, Glory be!
End of The Awakening of Spring by Sarah Barnwell Elliott The Birth of Tecumseh from The Story of Tecumseh by Norman S. Gerd This is a LibriVox recording.
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