Note 28 — Chapter I · CERTAIN PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY (continued 3)
Frederic Taber Cooper translation
It should be noted that sexual precocity or vice retards the development of puberty, while healthful psychic stimuli are favourable to it. Hence it was a right instinct that led us to give the name of sin and vice to what retards the normal development of life, and virtue and honour to what is favourable to it.—Author's note.