Note 1521 — XII SOME MODERN PROBLEMS

Personally I agree with the views of the Dean of St. Paul’s on this matter. Speaking of the use of these methods, ‘it seems’, he says, ‘a pis aller which high-minded persons should avoid if they can practise self-restraint. Whatever injures the feeling of “sanctification and honour” with which St. Paul bids us regard these intimacies of life, whatever tends to profane or degrade the sacraments of wedded love, is so far an evil. But this is emphatically a matter in which every man and woman must judge for themselves, and must refrain from judging others’ (Outspoken Essays, p. 74).