teaching is wholesome and necessary, and that the

results are universally uplifting.  Such teachings

improve health, prolong life and promote virtue,

adding to the happiness and lessening the burdens

of men, on the one hand, reducing their crimes

and vices on the other.  A book like this would

have proved invaluable to me on my entrance to

the married state;  for had I had it, I might not

have been forced to acquire the knowledge which

enables me now to state with all solemnity, that I

personally know hundreds of couples whose lives

were wrecked for lack of such knowledge, and that

whom verbal teaching along the lines he has laid

down has brought happiness, health and goodness.

Dr. Long advances no theories;  neither do I.

He has found, by studying himself and other people,

a sane and salutary way of sex living, and

fearlessly has prescribed this to a limited circle for

temerity and wisdom.  He offers no

apology, and there is no occasion for any.  He says,

'All has been set down in love, by a lover, for the

sake of lovers yet to be, in the hope of helping

them on toward a divine consummation.'  That is,

he has developed these ideas at home, and then

spread them abroad, or, he has found them abroad

and brought them home; and they worked.