Dean Inge’s Indictment.
LONDON. October 14. Dean Inge, preaching at Cambridge University, uttered a striking indictment of what he described as “This period of license.” The Dean said: “Adultery may be the pastime of the rich, but the very idea should no more occur to their minds than the idea of forging a cheque. Our imaginative literature is qow deeply corrupted. This is prostitution of literature. We are now in a period in which the principles which have held society, together since the dawn of history are too often set aside as irrational taboos. Yet, listen to this instruction by an American editor to his authors: ‘Here is a man and his wife and another man, write about them: let the shadow of the bed be on every page, but you need never let it appear.’ ” —Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18890, 15 October 1929, Page 10
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