This sexual excess continues usually until impotence intervenes.
There you have the life of the average civilized man!
Think you this picture overdrawn?
Think you that this is civilization?
My friends, it is savagery of the lowest, the most bestial character. As long as such a state of affairs exists, we have no more right to the claim of civilization than had those effeminate, corrupt and well-fed patricians of Ancient Rome whose weakness finally resulted in the downfall of that grand empire.
ARE WE, TOO, CONSIGNED TO SPEEDY OBLIVION?
The decay and death of this great people convey a lesson that can not be mistaken, and the writer maintains with all possible emphasis that either existing conditions will soon be changed or else the civilization of which we boast will meet with swift and certain oblivion.
Think you there is no truth in this statement? Let the future answer!
But cry out the truth on the housetops!
