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Nonsenseorship by Unknown
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spared the dreadful and dangerous ordeal of reading "Jurgen" so many
centuries later.

Indeed, if there had only been right-minded supervision over the
modelling of Adam and Eve the world could worry along nicely without
the aid of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Suppression of
those biological facts which the Society includes in its definition of
Vice is now impossible. Concealment is really what the good men are
after. Somewhat after the manner of the Babes in the Woods they would
cover us over with leaves. For men and women they have figs and for
babies they have cabbages.

It must have been a censor who first hit upon the notion that what you
don't know won't hurt you. We doubt whether it is a rule which applies
to sex. Eve left Eden and took upon herself a curse for the sake of
knowledge. It seems a little heedless of this heroism to advocate that
we keep the curse and forget the knowledge. The battle against
censorship should have ended at the moment of the eating of the apple.
At that moment Man committed himself to the decision that he would
know all about life even though he died for it. Unfortunately, under
the terms of the existence of mortals one decision is not enough. We
must keep reaffirming decisions if they are to hold. Even in Eden
there was the germ of a new threat to degrade Adam and Eve back to
innocence. When they ate the apple an amoeba in a distant corner of
the Garden shuddered and began the long and difficult process of
evolution. To all practical purposes John S. Sumner was already born.

To us the whole theory of censorship is immoral. If its functions were
administered by the wisest man in the world it would still be wrong.
But of course the wisest man in the world would have too much sense to
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