"
"Perhaps so," replied Diana.
They were silent for a moment, then Enoch said, with a quiet vehemence,
"Some day they'll dare to defy the creeds and put God into the public
schools. I don't know about girls, but, Miss Allen, the growing boys
need Him, more than they need a father. Something to cling to,
something high and noble and permanent while sex with all its thousand
varied impulses flagellates them! Something to go to with those
exquisite, generous fancies that even the worst boy has and that even
the best boy will not share even with the best mother. The homes today
don't have God in them. The churches with their hide-bound creeds
frighten away most men. Think, Miss Allen, think of the travesty of
our great educational system which ignores the two great facts of the
universe, God and sex."
"You've never put any of this into your public utterances."
"No," replied Enoch, "I've been saving it for you," and he looked at
her with a quiet smile.
Diana could but smile in return.
"And so," said Enoch, "returning to the answer to your original
question, I have found it hard to keep to any sort of fine idealism,
partly because of my own inward struggles and partly because politics
is a vile game anyhow.
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