The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: have turned their energies to 'business' or 'money-making'
or 'social advancement' or something equally futile,
as the only poor substitute and pis aller open to them.
[1] See Havelock Ellis, The Objects of Marriage, a pamphlet
published by the "British Society for the Study of
Sex-psychology."
Why (again we ask) did Christianity make this apparently
great mistake? And again we must reply: Perhaps the
mistake was not so great as it appears to be. Perhaps
this was another case of the necessity of learning by loss.
Love had to be denied, in the form of sex, in order that it
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