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THE STAR IN THE WEST
leaving
the
by-ways of vice high and dry , inviting ,
crying to the sated wanderer .
Man
lives
by paradoxes
and contraries ;
martyrs
and tortures
himself , building
around him lofty re
strictions
bristling
with
moral frises ,
and
broken
ethical
beer -bottles ,
digging
deep
trenches
around
his joys , and then
filling
them
with
the
tears of ex
asperation
at his
lot
.
All
is
either
monopoly
,
or
slavery
,
or
taboo
.
Free
in
his actions
he
conceived
law and solicitors
;
free
in
his aspirations
,
religion and
priests
;
free
in
his affections
,
marriage
and wives
.
Inwardly
he
agrees that marriage
is
a
success
only
when
it
comprises
a
total
unison
of
mind
,
body and
soul
,
of
sympathies
and
passions
;
outwardly
that
it
is
a
perpetual
seal
,
sealed
by
God
.
Dr.
Maudsley
once
said
,
“
No
one
can
escape
the
tyranny
of
his
organization
,”
but woe
to
the
man who cannot
dis
semble
that
he
can
!
Marriage
,
the hackneyed sexual
union
,
is
a
lie
to
love
,
a
legalizing
of
prostitution
,
an
abortive horror
,
over which broods the grinning
form
of
the Jew
-
God
—
God
of
lechers and harlots
,
of
David
and Rahab
.
What sight more truly pitiable than
to
be
hold the tender heart
of
some young girl
,
or
the ardent
spirit
of
another
,
cramped by this unnatural bond
,
and
denied
the joys
of
a
beneficent
Nature
,
that yearning
to
love and
be
loved
.
But not with impunity
do
we thus
triumph over our natures
;
love cannot
be
sorudely sup
pressed
;
the primary want
of
our being must inevitably
conquer
.
Looking back
on
history we find few parallels
to
the general lust
of
the present day
.
Two thousand
years
of
the Cross have
to
-
day left
as
token
of
its
mor
ality 80,000
prostitutes
on
the London
streets alone
.'
In
1861 Henry Mayhew stated
that
the assumed
number
of
prostitutes
in
London was about
80,000
.
And further adds
: