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If that has not been the motto of the reader of this book, I hope he will resolve upon it this minute. Anyone who does not live up to it is so much wastage in a world that might be beautiful. The poet Shelley, even though not strong enough to obey the Sixth Commandment, had enough sense of beauty to say devastatingly: Obscenity ... is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life. ... It is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food which it devours in secret.2 A good conversationalist is a clean one. And in a theoretically difficult matter the simplest way for a person to know whether he is a clean one is to ask himself whether his usual conversation is the kind his mother might well and unblushingly overhear. |
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