time: the refreshing river 



evil impulses into giving women unwanted children, for the 

 greater glory of God. Communist marriage drastically alters 

 these assumptions; it innocently assumes that sex is good, love 

 attainable, and marriage with or without children the comradely 

 creation of a man and woman who enjoy each other's company 

 so much that they want to try the experiment — it can not 

 rationally be more than that — of living together for that period 

 of time during which their intimate friendship makes life seem 

 more livable and lovable. In communist ethics, the unholy 

 alliance of property, puritanism and pornography is dissolved, 

 sex love becoming candid without lewdness, informal without 

 degradation, free without debauchery." 



In this connection one cannot but be reminded of those sparks 

 of prophetic insight concerning human relationships which scintillate 

 among the apocryphal writings of early Christianity.^ In the Gospel 

 according to the Egyptians^ which Origen criticised, there occurs 

 the following: — "When Salome inquired as to when the things 

 concerning which she asked should be known, the Lord said: 'When 

 you have trampled on the garment of shame, and when the two 

 become one, and the miale with the female is neither male nor female." 

 A similar passage occurs in the Second Epistle of Clement. 



In the fragment of a gospel in the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus (655) 

 there occurs the following: "His disciples said unto him, 'When 

 wilt thou be manifest unto us, and when shall we see thee.^' He saith, 

 'When ye have put off your raiment and are not asham.ed.' " 



In reading these strange fragments one cannot help thinking of the 

 great advance in civilisation which is implied by tlie possibility of 

 men and women working together in intellectual and productive 

 work. For earlier forms of civilisation, in which sex was a force far 

 less under rational and technical controls than now, this collaboration 

 was impossible. The liquidation of male aggressiveness and the 

 . liberation of the female from age-old slavery is the guarantee of the 

 stable and organised society of the future with its infinite control 

 over nature. 



The Contribution of Physiology and Biochemistry. 



The contribution of physiology to human affairs may seem to 

 many to be exhausted by its effects upon our knowledge of what is 

 healthy and what is not. Thus the realisation that Vitamin D is 



^ The quotations following are from The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, 1924). 



