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MB. HAVELOCK ELLIS began writing books more than thirty years ago, and some of his books might be described as milestones on the way to a more scientific and therefore a saner outlook upon certain aspects of human life. He tells us that his earliest book, having first been received with howls of execration, is now called sane and reasonable. Here he writes again, as indeed he has always written, of love and virtue—meaning by these not crude sex and namby-pamby goodness, but something heroic. He writes of the new mother, the renovation of the family, the function of taboos, the “revaluation of obscenity”, the control of population, and the future of eugenics. Whether the reader agrees with Mr. Ellis or not, he feels himself in the hands of one who is master of his theme, and master also of a felicitous literary style. Few people, we imagine, could read the preface to these chapters without reading on to the end.
More Essays of Love and Virtue.
Havelock
Ellis
By. Pp. xiii + 218. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1931.) 7s. 6d. net.
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More Essays of Love and Virtue . Nature 130, 564 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130564b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130564b0