REVALUATION OP LOVE IN SOCIETY

beauties and utilities, its well-set tables, and its numerous servants — alone and weeping. And why ?

And she answered, Indeed I long to go down into the world, but I may not ; no sooner do I show the face of Love than I am ezecrated as one forbidden and an eutcast. For in this dty so long as one remains within one's honae one may do there what meanness and selôshness one will, provided one keeps ÎBix the front of the house ; but to go forth openly and share one's life and the gladness of life with others, that is not permitted.

And I said, It is a strange dty.

And I went out and walked through the streets ; but gloom and sadness reigned, and only in some houses the nc^ of feasting and debauchery, and in others a sound of weeping.^

There must arise a new sentiment with respect to DUT bodies and their functipns — that the former, redolent with health and vibrant with passion, are the most beautiful of ail divine créations, and that the latter are essentially pure and sacred. Men must recapture the ancient sensé of the high value, even the reUgious value, of athletic fitness and restraint with a view to physical and emotional purity and power, regulating to this end their eating and drinldng. Discussions of the sex question must no longer be confined to laboratory and class-room, must be banished £rom the secret, and often unclean, conversations of one-sexed coteries in smoking-room and drawing-room, and take a natiual place in the friendly and serions