![]() ![]() Sexual instincts were not allowed to become seriously orgiastic and primitive. ![]() And although puritanism itself by then was in decay, American religion remained a thrilling wilderness in youth's psychological realm, defying generalisation and rare cynicism. Something akin to puritanical fervour infected sport on campus. Their "rebellion" was braver than it might seem: evangelical auxiliaries monitored university courses at that time to discourage "unsuitable" philosophy and extravagances of every kind, other than hymnic patriotism.Ĭonversation in which there were expressed views other than those appearing in newspapers hardly ever occurred, and generally excluded profanity when it did. A century or so ago, a good many young Americans reacted against spiritless factual scholarship by discovering and publicly embracing the likes of Yeats, Aubrey Beardsley, Rimbaud, Nietzsche and Wedekind. ![]()
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