 | Mabel Madeline Southard - 1927 - 200 էջ
...concentrated all the passions that fill the world with shame. She remains, while creeds and civilizations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people." " For multiplied centuries the world, holding with Lecky to the moral hopelessness of man, has openly... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1910 - 690 էջ
...the passions that might have filled the world with shame. She remains, while creeds and civilizations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people.'' 2 - I am not aware that the Greeks were greatly concerned with 1 History of European Morals, vol. iii,... | |
 | Willystine Goodsell - 1928 - 496 էջ
...from their demands. In the oft-quoted words of Lecky : "She remains, while creeds and civilizations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people." 2 Only within the last generation has this ancient belief been seriously challenged. But, although... | |
 | Iwan Bloch - 1928 - 808 էջ
...passions that might have filled the world with shame. She remains, while creeds and civilizations arise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people." — LECKY. DOB CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XIII Prostitution and venereal disease the central problem of the... | |
 | 1902 - 1096 էջ
...the passions that might have filled the world with shame. She remains, while creeds and civilizations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people." One would expect this doctrine of the " not ourselves which makes for iniquity" to be a very popular... | |
 | James Keir Hardie - 1974 - 386 էջ
...chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder would have known the agony of remorse and despair. In that one degraded and ignoble form are concentrated...priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people.—LECKY, Author of History of Civilisation. The various forms of Communism are compatible with... | |
 | David Richards - 1986 - 334 էջ
...untempted chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder, would have known the agony of remorse and despair. On that one degraded and ignoble form are...priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people. 2 W. Lecky, History of European Morals 283 (1921). Compare Schopenhauer's remark: "There are 80,000... | |
 | Jacqueline Field-Bibb - 1991 - 412 էջ
...untempted chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder, would have known the agony of remorse and despair. On that one degraded and ignoble form are...priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people.46 This was a flagrant exposition of the double standard - which existed not entirely without... | |
 | J. B. Bullen - 1998 - 266 էջ
...unregulated sexuality, while at the same time she is reviled for doing so. 'She remains', he concludes, 'while creeds and civilisations rise and fall, the...priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people."5 As a result of this higbly charged role in the life of middle-class culture, both desired... | |
 | Elizabeth Abbott - 2000 - 504 էջ
...purity of countless happy homes would be polluted. . . . She remains, while creeds and civilizations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people. Lecky was right. Prostitutes, reviled though they were, effectively accommodated enough male lechery... | |
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On that one degraded and ignoble form are concentrated the passions that might have filled the world with shame. She remains, while creeds and civilisations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people. 
