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So it's no longer true that:
Time that is intolerant
Of the brave and the innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,
Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives.
Time that is intolerant
Of the brave and the innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,
Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives.
It no longer:
Pardons cowardice, conceit,
Lays its honours at their feet.
Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardons him for writing well.
Pardons cowardice, conceit,
Lays its honours at their feet.
Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardons him for writing well.
Kipling will be damned and the only views that will be tolerated are those of the moment. That would be alright if our views were rooted in eternity. But realistically they will be rooted only in expedience.
Lacking universalism, our abhorrence of child abuse is momentary. Let the subject change to late term abortion or after-birth abortion and there is a remarkable reversal of positions.
