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Correspondence from Charles E. Banks to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1915-1930, part 7 (ms158_b1f005_007.1.pdf)

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act as his substitute. Altogether sex hygiene proved to be some subject after all. Thus far I have never seen or heard any real talk on the proposal and until some one is willing to discuss it physiologically and freely and say why race suicide will never happen and what sex is and what it is for - we shall continue to aim spit balls at the subject. I could evolve a scheme of sex instruction based on scientific lines and the truth but --- I am busy with Indians and my memorandum herewith shows what I think of the two Damarises. They may be dismissed as Algonkian words altogether My idea of a scientific collation of place names is to take a territory - say New England and assemble all the words of identical root origin as they occur here and there and see how they have been applied and why. For example Monhegan in Maine and Monhegan in Conn - one an island the other where

Description: Letters pertain to Indian languages, Indian place names in Maine, and other aspects of Native American cultures in the region.

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Language: English

Date: ca. 1915-1930

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