Note 20 — Chapter I · Physiological Laws which Influence the Physical and Mental Growth of Sex
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The unhealthiness and indecency of harem life, with its effect upon the boys and girls, its encouragement of abortion, and the unhappy and degraded condition of the women, are sketched with the painful truth of close observation in The People of Turkey, edited by S. Lane Poole—a book worthy of careful consideration. See also Lane’s Egyptians, etc.