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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: vice is forbidden. The Creator is explicitly prayed to, and
implicitly convicted of indecency every day. An association of vice
and sin with everything that is delightful and of goodness with
everything that is wretched and detestable is set up. All the most
perilous (and glorious) appetites and propensities are at once
inflamed by starvation and uneducated by art. All the wholesome
conditions which art imposes on appetite are waived: instead of
cultivated men and women restrained by a thousand delicacies, repelled
by ugliness, chilled by vulgarity, horrified by coarseness, deeply and
sweetly moved by the graces that art has revealed to them and nursed
in them, we get indiscrimmate rapacity in pursuit of pleasure and a
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