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posterity. To bring light gradually into this
chaos is supremely important for humanity,
and literature should therefore have the greatest
possible freedom in this sphere,—just the
opposite to the tendencies of the present day
that would limit this freedom. While I fully
agree with what has been said I should like to
state that the greatest obstacle to the free
discussion of this theme is still the Christian way
of looking at the origin and nature of man.
His only possible escape from the results of
the fall is made to consist in his belief in Christ;
for with this point of view, there came into
Western Europe, by means of Christianity,
the opinion that everything concerning the
continuation of the race was impure; to be
suppressed if possible, and if this could not be
done, that it must at least be veiled in silence
and obscurity. For Christianity, eternal life,
not life in the world, is ever the significant
factor. The dualism of existence it tries in
the first place to remove by asceticism, not by
attempting to ennoble the life of human
impulses. This standpoint still continues to
be popular in our days, as is shown in its
victories through legislation directed against
the nude in art and in literature.
The Christian way of looking at the relation
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