Vulgar words in History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,683 ~ ~ ~
Although Greece was involved for years in war and ancient Troy was destroyed and all its inhabitants slaughtered because of the seduction of one woman; and Semiramis, through her beauty, got all her successive husbands in chancery; and poor, susceptible Samson, from firing Philistine vineyards and killing lions bare-handed, and the Philistines by the thousands with the jaw-bone of an ass, was reduced through Delilah to bitter repentance and turning Philistine mill-stones; and we know that the familiar infatuation of Antony for Cleopatra ruined Antony; and we are familiar with the well-known maxim of the French police-minister, that to catch a criminal it was but necessary to first locate _the woman_ and the man would soon be found,--society has determined to ignore the influence of the animal passions as factors in our every-day life, or factors in the estrangements, coldness, and the bickerings that end in divorces.