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normal , love of man and woman for God is abnormal ,
and
the
abnormal
in
its
turn
breeds
the
lustful
,
whether the abnormality
lies
in
the twists
of
the mind
or
the
aberrations
of
the soul
.
Amnon
lusted after
Tamar
,
he
was
a
mental monster
;
Ezekiel devoured
dung
,
he
was
a
spiritual
abortion
.
That
a
passionate
nature
is
necessarily
a
lustful
one
,
is
often no more the case
than that
a
lustful
one
need
necessarily
be
passionate
;
that lust
as
well
as
passion often inhabit
the
same
mind
is
true enough
,
and that its forms
are
monstrous
must
be
apparent
to
all
students
of
sexual psychology
;
as
the
cold
blooded lust
of
the lecher
,
who can only find
stimula
tion for his gross lecheries
in
the horrors
of
a
de
Sade
,
devouring
in
security and
ease maidens and youths
,
as
the minotaur
did
of
old—
“
semibovemque virum
,
semivirumque
bovem
.”
This
is
the lust which
is
the
most horrid
,
and the
most damnable
;
it
takes much
to
produce
a
passionate man
,
but little
to
engender
a
lustful
one
.
The present generation possesses
a
mini
mum
of
passion and
a
maximum
of
lust
.
There
is
no
lust
of
Rome
,
of
Greece
,
or
Arabia
,
no
vice
of
Sodom
,
of
Paphos
,
or
Lampsacus
,
that
is
not practised
to
-
day
in
any
of
our larger modern towns
.
Lust
of
wealth
,
lust
of
ease
,
lust
of
renown
,
lie
as
cankering worms
in
our hearts
;
and the cold bought lust
of
our marriage
beds and our streets
fill
our days with woe
.
Chivalry
is
dead
,
and the gilded Ass reigns
in
the place
of
the
champing Stallion
,
and brays
its
goatish
desires over
the naked form of the sterile Mule
.
No longer
in
this ice
-
bound age
of
frozen phalli
do
we hear sung
:
For
,
swooning
at
the fervid lips
Of Artemis
,
the maiden kisses