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Counter-Currents confusion of outlook, a perilous nullification of honesty and honour.

To illustrate this point, I quote some verses which appeared in a periodical devoted to social work, a periodical with high and serious aims. I quote them reluctantly (not deeming them fit for publication), and only because it is impossible to ignore the fact that their appearance in such a paper makes them doubly and trebly reprehensible. They are entitled "The Cry to Christ of the Daughters of Shame."

"Crucified once for the sins of the world,

O fortunate Christ!" they cry:

"With an Easter dawn in thy dying eyes,

O happy death to die!

"But we,—we are crucified daily,

With never an Easter morn;

But only the hell of human lust,

And worse,—of human scorn.

"For the sins of passionless women,

For the sins of passionate men,

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