KE®AAH &
THE WOUND OF AMFORTAS”
Vir-tus has become ‘‘ virtue.”
The qualities which have made a man, a race,
a city, a caste, must be thrown off; death is
the penalty of failure. As it is written: In
the hour of success sacrifice that which is
dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods!
The Englishman lives upon the excrement of
his forefathers.
All moral codes are worthless in themselves:
yet in every zew code there is hope. Pro-
vided always that the code is not changed
because it is too hard, but because it is
fulfilled.
The dead dog floats with the stream ; in puritan
France the best women are harlots; in vicious
England the best women are virgins.
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