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Excerpt from Personal Purity, Home Life and National Greatness: An Address
England; and many, alas! Of the so-called leaders of society are making themselves (unwittingly it may be) the tools of an aestheticism which has for its heart the heart of a beast. (hear, hear.) The apostles of that cult have visited our own land, and, taking ad vantage of the temptations of a life, free, bright, prosperous, and lived under an ardent sun, have sought to justify or excuse that amongst us which is our deepest shame. It is our bounden duty to look this evil straight in the face, to tear the mask off its painted features, and to overcome our shame in talking about that which is shameful, lest taking refuge in its foulness, this vile gospel of the esh should burrow unseen in the hearts of our young people, and only then reveal itself when it is too powerful to be overcome. (hear, hear).
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