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Yes, we are a goodly company, the blest ;  our 
lives are spent in sunny gardens and yours in sub-
terranean sewers ;  we are so blissful that we rarely 
notice you ;  when we do, it is to say :  God have 
mercy upon these blind and miserable slaves, and 
bring them out into His light and joy and liberty ! 
Wherefore I pray Him (Oh thou all-loving, all 
transcending God !) that should this essay fall (as 
seed by the wayside) into the hands of the young 
that they may dwell with us in the Heaven which is 
Here and Now, and (after) in the Palace which of 
His lovingkindness He hath prepared for us in that 
Garden of Gardens which is approached only 
through the narrow postern gate of Death.   
 
 
 
 
1.  There is of course not the most shadowy rea-
son in ethics for the attitude of the law.  The most 
confirmed sodomite (bimetallist) may beget quite as 
many children as another, while monogamy is the 
fashion.  If man were expected to fertilize some do-
zens of women every night, like a stud ram, I don’t 
say :  but he is not.  But on the positive side, a 
strict adherence to sodomy, except for the practical 
purpose of begetting children, or for pacifying 
women, an object which a parallel development of 
Sapphism would more rationally fulfil, would avoid 
the numberless crimes and calamities inseparable 
from sexual intercourse — venereal diseases (al-
most entirely), seduction, abortion, concealment of 
birth, child-murder, social tyranny, — et omnis 
horrida cohors malorum. 
As few people seem to know the fons et origo le-
gis, I may here be permitted to sketch it in out-
line.  When the power of the Crescent menaced 
that of the Cross, sodomy was put down with Dra-
conic rigour because the Turks believed that the