if only because it would be much easier to submit that to resist.


And the result? Obviously, it would be laudable--that is, accepting
current definitions of the laudable. The product, after six months,
would be a well-regimented and disillusioned young man, as devoid
of disquieting and demoralizing, passion as an ancient of eighty--in
brief, the ideal citizen of Christendom. The present plan surely fails
to produce a satisfactory crop of such ideal citizens. On the one
hand its impossible prohibitions cause a multitude of lamentable
revolts, often ending in a silly sort of running amok. On the other
hand they fill the Y. M. C. A.'s with scared poltroons full of
indescribably disgusting Freudian suppressions. Neither group
supplies many ideal citizens. Neither promotes the, sort of
public morality that is aimed at.




25.


Late Marriages




The marriage of a first-rate man, when it takes place at all,
commonly takes place relatively late. He may succumb in the end,
but he is almost always able to postpone the disaster a good deal