The Star in the West

68 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 :