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French Immoralism

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 9, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 15.

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French Immoralism

A Defense of Immoralism.—A decent government official in France has begun a vigorous campaign against obscene pictures and improper books. This in some circles is meeting favorable response, but there are found influential people who, while they admit all the immorality in France, declare it is "the characteristic quality of the free spirit, and accompanies none but the highest intellectual attainments." So one writer declares. He says: "We are immorals because we are curious and sincere." "Our immoralism is bound up with our art, our wit, our intelligence. It is not a thing to blush over, for it is a sign of our temperament and one of the titles of our glory." All these sentiments are the result of setting aside the law of the Most High, and it is well expressed in the words of the great apostle: "Whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." Phil. 3:19.