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IS THE BIBLE INDICTABLE?
DY
ANNIE
BESANT.
BEING AN ENQUIRY WHETHER THE BIBLE COMES
WITHIN THE RULING OF THE LORD CHIEF
TUSTICE AS TO OBSCENE LITERATURE.
LONDON:
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AN enquiry whether the bible comes within
THE RULING OF THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
AS TO OBSCENE LITERATURE.
The ruling of Sir Alexander Cockburn in the late trial, the
'Queen against Bradlaugh and Besant, seems to involve
wider issues than the Lord Chief Justice intended, or than
the legal ally of Nature and Providence can desire. The
question of motive is entirely set on one side; the purest
motives are valueless if the information conveyed is such as
is capable of being turned to bad purposes by the evilminded and the corrupt. This view of the law would not
he enforced against expensive medical works ; provided that
the price set on a book be such as shall keep it out of reach
of the “ common people,” its teaching may be thoroughly
immoral but it is not obscene. Dr. Fleetwood Churchill,
for instance, is not committing an indictable offence by
;giving directions as to the simplest and easiest way of pro
curing abortion; he is not committing a misdemeanour,
although he points out means which any woman could
obtain and use for herself; he does not place himself within
Teach of the law, although he recommends the practice of
abortion in all cases where previous experience proves that
the birth of a living child is impossible. A check to popu
lation which„ destroys life is thus passed over as legal, per
haps because the destruction of life is the check so largely
employed by Nature and Providence, and would thus ensure
the approval of the Solicitor-General. But the real reason
why Dr. Churchill is left unmolested and Dr. Knowlton
is assailed, lies in the difference of the price at which
the two are severally published. If Dr. Knowlton was
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sold at ios. 6d. and Dr. Churchill at 6d., then
the vials of legal wrath would have descended on theadvocate of abortion and not on the teacher of prevention.
The obscenity lies, to a great extent, in the price of the book
sold. A vulgar little sixpence is obscene, a dainty halfsovereign is respectable. Poor people must be content toremain ignorant, or to buy the injurious quack treatises;
circulated in secret; wealthier people, who want knowledge
less, are to be protected by the law in their purchases of
medical works, but if poor people, in sore need, finding
“ an undoubted physician ” ready to aid them, venture to
ask for his work, written especially for them, the law strikes
down those who sell them health and happiness. They
must not complain; Nature and Providence have placed
them in a state of poverty, and have mercifully provided for
them effectual, if painful, checks to population. The same
element of price rules the decency or the indecency of
pictures. A picture painted in oils, life size, of the naked
human figure, such as Venus disrobed for the bath, or
Phryne before her judges, or Perseus and Andromeda,
exhibited to the upper classes, in a gallery, with a shilling
admission charge, is a perfectly decent and respectable work
of art. Photographs of those pictures, uncoloured, and
reduced in size, are obscene publications, and are seized as
such by thd police. Cheapness is, therefore, an essential
part of obscenity.
If a book be cheap, what constitutes it an obscene book ?
Lord Campbell, advocating in Parliament the Act against
obscene literature which bears his name, laid down very
clearly his view of what should, legally, be an obscene work.
It must be a work “written for the single purpose of
corrupting the morals of youth, and of a nature calculated
to shock the feelings of decency in any well-regulated
mind ” (Hansard, vol. 146, No. 2, p. 329). The law,,
according to him, was never to be levelled even against
works which might be considered immoral and indecent,,
such as some of those of Dryden, Congreve, or Rochester.
“The keeping, or the reading, or tve delighting in such
things must be left to taste, and was not a subject for legal
interference; ” the law was only to interpose where the motive
of the seller was bad; “ when there were people who
designedly and industriously manufactured books and prints
with the intention of corrupting the public morals, and when
they succeeded in their infamous purpose, he thought it was
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►necessary for the legislature to interpose ” (Hansard, vol.
146, No. 4, p. 865).
The ruling of the present Lord Chief Justice in the late
■trial is in direct opposition to the view taken by Lord
Campbell. The chief says : “ Knowlton goes into physio
logical details connected with the functions of the genera
tion and procreation of'children. The principles of this
.pamphlet, with its details, are to be found in greater
abundance and distinctness in numerous works to which
your attention has been directed, and, having these details
before you, you must judge for yourselves whether there is
-anything in them which is calculated to excite the passions
of man and debase the public morals. If so, every medical work
is open to the same imputation” (Trial, p. 261). The Lord Chief
Justice then refers to the very species of book against which
Lord Campbell said that he directed his Act. “ There are
books,” the chief says, “ which have for their purpose the
■exciting of libidinous thoughts, and are intended to give to
persons who take pleasure in that sort of thing the impure
gratification which the contemplation of such thoughts is
calculated to give.” If the book were of that character it
4‘ would be condemnable,” and so far all are agreed as to the
law. But Sir Alexander Cockburn goes further, and here is
the danger of his interpretation of the law: “ Though the
■intention is not unduly to convey this knowledge, and gratify
prurient and libidinous thoughts, still, if its effect is to excite
and create thoughts of so demoralising a character to the
mind of the reader, the work is open to the condemnation
asked for at your hands ” (Trial, p. 261).. Its effect on what
reader? Suppose a person of prurient mind buys Dr.
Carpenter’s “Human Physiology,’’and reads the long chapter,
containing over 100 pages, wholly devoted to a minute des
cription of generation; the effect of the reading will be “ to
excite and create thoughts of” the “demoralising character”
spoken of. According to the Lord Chief Justice’s ruling, Dr,
Carpenter’s would then become an obscene book. The evil
motive is transferred from the buyer to the seller, and then
the seller is punished for the buyer’s bad intent; vicarious
punishment seems to have passed from the church into the
law court. There can be no doubt that every medical book
-now comes under the head of “ obscene literature,” for they
may all be read by impure people, and will infallibly have
the affect of arousing prurient thoughts ; that they are written
for a good purpose, that they are written to cure disease, is
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no excuse; the motive of the writer must not be considered
the law has decided that books whose intention is to*
convey physiological knowledge, and that not unduly, areobscene, if the reader’s passions chance to be aroused by
them; “ we must not listen to arguments upon moral obli
gations arising out of any motive, or out of any desire tobenefit humanity, or to do good to your species ” (Trial,
p. 237). The only protection of these, otherwise obscene,
books lies in their price; they are generally highly-priced,
and they do thus lack one essential element of obscenity.
For the useful book that bad people make harmful must be
cheap in order to be practically.obscene ; it must be within
reach of the poor, and be “ capable of being sold at the
corners of the streets, and at bookstalls, to every one who
has sixpence to spare” (Trial, p. 261).
The new ruling touches all the dramatists and writers that
Lord Campbell had no idea of attacking ; no one can doubt
that many of Congreve’s dramas are calculated to arousesexual passion; these are sold at a very low price, and they
have not even the defence of conveying any useful informa
tion ; they come most distinctly within the ruling of theLord Chief Justice ; why are they to be permitted freecirculation ? Sterne, Fielding, Smollett, Swift, must all be
flung into the dusthole after Congreve, Wycherley, Jonson ;
Dryden, of course, follows these without delay, andSpencer, with his “ Faerie Queene,” is the next victim.
Shakespeare can have no quarter shown him ; not only aremost gross passages scattered through his works, but the
motive of some of them is directly calculated to arouse thepassions ; for how many youthful love fevers is not “ Romeo
and Juliet ” answerable; what of “Cymbeline,” “Pericles,”
or “ Titus Andronicus ” ? Can “ Venus and Adonis ” tend
to anything except to the rousing of passion ? is “ Lucrece”
not obscene? Yet Macmillan’s Globe Edition of Shakes
peare is regarded as one of the most admirable publishing
efforts made by that eminent firm to put English master
pieces in the hands of the poor. Coming to our time, what
is to be done with Byron ? “ Don J uan ” is surely calculated
to corrupt, not to speak of other poems, such as “ Parisina.”
What of Shelley, with his “ Cenci ?” Swinburne, must of
course, be burned at once. Every one of these great
names is now branded as obscene, and under the ruling of
the Lord Chief Justice every one of them must be con
demned. Suppose some one should follow Hetherington’s-
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example ? Suppose that we should become the prosecutors
instead of the prosecuted ? Suppose that we should drag
Others to share our prison, and should bring the most hon
oured names of authors into the same condemnation that
has struck us? Why should we show to others a con
sideration that has not been shown to us ? If it is said
that we should not strike, we answer; “ Then leave tis
alone, and calculate the consequences before you touch
us again.” The law has been declared by the Lord Chief
Justice of England; why is not that law as binding on Mac
millan as on us ? The law has been narrowed in order to
enmesh Freethought: its net will catch other fishes as well,
or else break under the strain and let all go free. The
Christians desire to make two laws, and show their hands
too plainly : one law is to be strict, and is to apply wholly
to Freethinkers; cheating Christians, who sell even Knowl-.
ton, are to be winked at by the authorities, and are to be let
off scot free; but this is not all. Ritualists circulate a book
beside which Knowlton is said to be purity itself, and the
law does not touch them ; no warrants are issued for their
apprehension; no prosecution is paid for by a hidden
enemy ; no law-officer of the Crown is briefed against them.
Why is this ? because to attack Christians is to draw atten
tion to the foundation of Christianity ; because to attack the
“ Priest in Absolution ” is to attack Moses. The Christian
walls are made out of Bible-glass, and they fear to throw
stones lest they should break their own house. Listen to
Mr. Ridsdale, a brother of the Holy Cross : “ I wonder,”
he says, “ why some one does not stand up in the House of
Lords and bring a charge against the Bible (especially Levi
ticus) as an immoral book.” The Church Times, the organ
of the Ritualists, has a letter which runs thus : “ Suppose a
patrician and a pontifex in old Rome had with care and
deliberation extracted sentences from Holy Writ, separated
them from their context, suppressed the general nature
and character of the book, and then accused the bishop
and his clergy of deliberately preparing an obscene
book to contaminate the young (how readily he might
have made such extracts !), what should we have said of
such ruffians?” This, then, is the shield of the clergy;
the Bible is itself so obscene that Christians fear to prosecute
priests who circulate obscenity.
Does the Bible come within the ruling of the Lord Chief
Justice as to obscene literature ? Most decidedly it does,
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and if prosecuted as an obscene book, it must necessarily be
condemned, if the law is justly administered.
Every
Christian ought therefore to range himself on our side, and
demand a reversal of the present rule, for under it his own
sacred book is branded as obscene, and may be prosecuted
as such by any unbeliever.
First, the book is widely circulated at a low price. If the
Bible were restricted in its circulation by being sold at
ios. 6d. or a guinea, it might escape being placed in the
category of obscene literature under the present ruling.
But no such defence can be pleaded for it. It is sold at
8d. a copy, printed on cheap paper, and strongly bound, for
use in schools ; it is given away by thousands among the
“ common people,” whose morals are now so carefully looked
after in the matter of books ; it is presented to little chil
dren of both sexes, and they are told to read it carefully.
To such an extent is this carried, that some thousands of
children assembled together were actually told by Lord
Sandon, the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on
Education, to read the Bible right through from beginning
to end, and were bidden not to pick'and choose. The ele
ment of price is clearly against the Bible if it be proved to
have in it anything which is of a nature calculated to sug
gest impure thoughts.
As to the motives of the writers, we need not trouble
about them. The law now says that intention is nothing,
and no desire to do good is any excuse for obscenity (Trial,
P- 257)There remains the vital question : is the effect of some of
its passages to excite and create demoralising thoughts?
(Trial, p. 261).
The difficulty of dealing with this question is that
many of the quotations necessary to prove that the Bible
■ comes under the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice are
of such an extremely coarse and disgusting character, that
it is really impossible to reproduce them without intensi
fying the evil which they are calculated to do. While I
see no indecency in a plain statement of physiological
facts, written for people’s instruction, I do see indecency
in coarse and indelicate stories, the reading of which can do
no good to any human being, and can have no effect save
that of corrupting the mind and suggesting unclean
ideas. I therefore refuse to soil my pages with quotations,
and content myself with giving the references, so that any
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one who desires to use the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice
to suppress the Bible may see what certainty of success
awaits him if justice be done. I shall not trouble about
simple coarseness, such as Gen. iv. i, 17, 25; Gen. vi. 4;
or Matt. i. 18-20, 25. If mere coarseness of expression
were to be noted, my task would be endless. But let the
intending prosecutor read the following passages. A little
boy of 8 or 10 would scarcely be improved by reading Gen.
ix. 20-25 1 the drunkenness, indecency, and swearing in
these six verses is surely calculated to corrupt the boy’s
mind. The teaching of Gen. xvi. 1-5 is scarcely elevating
for the “ common people,” seeing the example set by the
“friend of God.” Gen. xvii. 10-14 and 23-27 is very coarse.
Would Gen. xix. 4-9 improve a young maiden, or would it
not suggest the most impure thoughts, verse 5 dealing with
an idea that should surely never be put into a girl’s
mind ? The same chapter, 30-38, is revolting; and Deut.
ii. 9 and 19 implies God’s approval of the unnatural
crime. The ignorance of physiology which is thought best
■for girls would receive a shock, when in reading the Bible
straight through, the day’s portion comprised Gen. xxv., 2126. Gen. xxvi., 8 is not nice, nor is Gen. xxix., 21-35, and
Gen. xxx. The story of Dinah, Gen. xxxiv.; of Reuben,
Gen. xxxv., 22 ; ofOnan, Gen. xxxviii., 8-10 ; of Judah and
Tamar, xxxviii., 13-26 ; of the birth of Tamar’s children,
xxxviii., 27-30, are all revolting in their foulness of phrase
ology. Why the Bible should be allowed to tell the story of
Onan seems very strange, and the “ righteousness ” of Tamar
(v. 26) wins approval. Is this thought purifying teaching for
the “ common people ” ? The story of Joseph and Potiphar’s
wife, Gen. xxxix., 7-18, I have heard read in church to the
manifest discomfort of some of the congregation, and the
amusement of others, while Joseph flying from temptation
and leaving his garment with Potiphar’s wife is a picture
often seen in Sunday schools. Thus twelve out of the fifty
chapters of Genesis are undeniably obscene, and if there is
any justice in England, Genesis ought to be suppressed.
We pass, to Exodus. Ex. i., 15-19 is surely indecent. I am
not dealing with immoral teaching, or God’s blessing on the
falsehood of the midwives (20, 21) would need comment.
Ex. iv., 24-26, is very coarse; so also Ex. xxii., 16, 17, 19.
Leviticus is coarse throughout, but.is especially so in chaps,
v., 3; xii.; xv.; xviii., 6-23; xx., 10-21; xxii., 3-5. The
trial of jealousy is most revolting in Numb, v., 12-29.
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Numb, xxv., 6-8 is hardly a nice story for a child, nor is that
of Numb, xxxi., 17,18. Deut. xxi., 10-14 is not pure teaching"
for soldiers. Deut. xxii,, 13-21 is extremely coarse; the re
mainder of the chapter comes also within the Chiefs ruling,
as do also chaps, xxiii., 1, 10, 11; xxv., 11, 12 ; xxvii., 20,.
22, 23 ; xxviii., 57. The fault of the book of Joshua lies
chiefly in its exceeding brutality and bloodthirstiness, but it,
also, does not quite escape the charge of obscenity, as may
be seen by referring to the following passage : chap, v., 2-8.
Judges is occasionally very foul, and is utterly unfit for
general reading, according to the late definition;
Ehud and Eglon, Judges, iii., 15-25, would not bear
reading aloud, and the story might have been
told equally well in decent language. Or take the
horribly disgusting tale of the Levite and his concubine
(Judges xix.), and then judge whether a book containing
such stories is fit for use in schools. Dr. Carpenter’s book
may do good there, because, with all its plain speaking, it
conveys useful information; but what good—mental,
physical, or moral—can be done to a young girl by reading
Judges xix. ? And the harm done is intensified by the fact
that the ignorance in which girls are kept surrounds such a
story with unwholesome interest, as giving a glimpse into
what is, to them, the great mystery of sex. The story of
Ruth iii. 3—14 is one which we should not like to see
repeated by our daughters; for the virtue of a woman who
should wait until a man was drunk, and then go alone at
night and lie down at his feet, would, in our days, be
regarded as problematical. 1 Sam. ii. 2 2, and v. 9 are both
obscene; so are 1 Sam. xviii. 25—-27 and xxi. 4, 5.
1 Sam. xxv. 22, 34 are disgustingly coarse, and there are
many similar coarse passages to be found in “ holy ” writ.
2 Sam. vi. 14, 16, 20, is a little over-suggestive, as is also
2 Sam. x. 4. The story of David dancing is told in
1 Chron. xv. 27—29 without anything offensive in its tone.
The story of David and Bathsheba is only too well known, and
as told in 2 Sam. xi. 2—13 is far more calculated to arouse
the passions than is anything in Knowlton. The prophecy
in 2 Sam. xii. 11, 12, fulfilled in xvi. 21, 22, is repulsive in
the extreme, more especially when we are told that the
shameful counsel was given by Ahithophel, whose counsel,
“ which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had
inquired at the oracle of God.” If God’s oracles give such
counsel, the less they are resorted to the better for the
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welfare of the state. We are next given the odious story of
Amnon and Tamar (2 Sam. xiii. 1—22), instructive for Lord
Sandon’s boys and girls to read together, as they go through
the Bible from beginning to end. 1 Kings i. 1—4 conveys
an idea more worthy of George IV. than of the man after
God’s own heart. In 1 Kings xiv. 10, the coarseness is inex
cusable, and verse 24 is only too intelligible after Judges xix.
2 Kings ix. 8, xviii. 27, are thoroughly Biblical in their
delicacy. 1 Chron. xix. 4 repeats the unpleasant story of
2 Sam. x. 4; but both 1 and 2 Chronicles are, for the Bible,
remarkably free from coarseness, and are a great improve
ment on the books of Kings and Samuel. The same praiseis deserved by Ezra and Nehemiah., The tone of the story
of Esther is somewhat sensual throughout: the drunken
king commanding Vashti to come in and show her beauty,
Esther i. 11 ; the search for the young virgins, Esther ii.
2—4; the trial and choice, Esther ii. 12—17, these are
scarcely elevating reading ; Esther vii. 8 is also coarse.
To a girl whose safety is in her ignorance, Job iii. 11 is very
plain. Psalm xxxviii. 5—7 gives a description of a certain
class of disease in exact terms. Proverbs v. 17—20 is good
advice, but would be condemned by the Lord Chief Justice;
Proverbs vi. 24—32 is of the same character, as is also
Proverbs vii. 5—23. The allusion in Ecclesiastes xi. 5
would be objected to as improper by the Solicitor-General.
The Song of Solomon is a marriage-song of the sensual
and luxuriant character : put Knowlton side by side with it,
and then judge which is most calculated to arouse the
passions. It is almost impossible to select, where all is of
so extreme a character, but take i. 2, 13; ii. 4—6, 17;
iii. 1, 4 ; iv. 5, 6, 11; v. 2—4, 8, 14—16 ; vii. 2, 3, 6—10, 12;
viii. 1—3, 8—10. Could any language be more alluring,
more seductive, more passion-rousing, than the languid,
uxorious, “ linked sweetness long drawn out ” of this
Eastern marriage-ode ? It is not vulgarly coarse and offen
sive as is so much of the Bible, but it is, according to the
ruling of the Lord Chief Justice, a very obscene poem.
One may add that, in addition to the allusions and descrip
tions that lie on the surface, there is a multitude of sugges
tions not so apparent, but which are thoroughly open to all
who know anything of Eastern imagery.
After the Song of Solomon, it is a shock to come to the
prophets; it is like plunging into cold water after being in
a hothouse. Unfortunately, with the more bracing atmo
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sphere, we find the old brutality coming again to repel us,
■and coarse denunciation shocks us, as in Isaiah iii. 17. How
would the Lord Chief Justice have dealt with Isaiah if he
had lived in his day, and acted as is recorded in Isaiah xx.,
2—4 ? He clearly would have put him in a lunatic asylum
(Trial, p. 168). If it were not that there are so many worse
passages, one might complain of the taste shown in the com
parison of Isaiah xxvi. 17, 18; the same may be said of
Isaiah xxxii. 11, 12. In Isaiah xxxvi. 12 we have a repe
tition of 2 Kings xviii. 27, which we could weli have spared.
In Isaiah lvii. 8, 9, we meet a favourite simile of the Jewish
prophets, wherein God is compared to a husband, and the
people to an unfaithful wife, and the relations between them
are described with a minuteness which can only be fitly
designated by the Solicitor-General’s favourite word. Isaiah
lxvi. 7—12 would be regarded as somewhat coarse in an
■ordinary book. The prophets get worse as they go on.
Jeremiah i. 5 is the first verse we meet in Jeremiah which the
Solicitor-General would take exception to. We next meet the
simile of marriage, in Jeremiah ii., 20,iii. 1—3,6—9, verse 9
being especially offensive. Jer. v. 7, 8, is coarse, as are also
Jer. xi. 15 andxiii. 26, 27. Ought the girl’s schools to read
Jer. xx. 17, 18? But, perhaps, as Ezekiel is coming, it is
hypercritical to object to Jeremiah. Lamentations i. 8, 9, is
revolting, and verse 17 of the same chapter uses an extremely
coarse simile. Ezekiel is the prophet who eat a little book
and found it disagree with him : it seems a pity that he did
■not eat a large part of his own, and so prevent it from
poisoning other people. What can be more disgusting than
Ez. iv. 12—15? the whole chapter is absurd, but these
verses are abominable. The prophet seems, like the drawers
of the indictment against us, to take pleasure in piling up
uncomfortable terms, as in Ez. vi. 9. We now come to
a chapter that is obscene from beginning to end, and may,
I think, almost claim the palm of foulness. Let any one
read through Ez. xvi., marking especially verses 4—9, 15—17,
25, 26, 33, 34, 37, 39, and then think of the absurdity of
prosecuting Knowlton for corrupting the morals of the
young, who have this book of Ezekiel put into their hand.
After this, Ez. xviii. 6, 11, and 15 seem quite chaste and
delicate; and no one could object to Ez. xxii. 9—n.
Ez. xxiii. is almost as bad as chapter xvi., especially verses
6—9, 14—21, 29, 41—44. Surely if any book be indict
able for obscenity, the Bible should be the first to be prose
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cuted. I know of no other book in which is to be found such
utterly unredeemed coarseness. The rest of Ezekiel is only
bloodthirsty and brutal, so may, fortunately, be passed over
without further comment. Daniel may be left unnoticed ;
and we now come to Hosea, a prophet whose morals were,
to speak gently, peculiar. The “ beginning of the word of
the Lord by Hosea/’ was the Lord’s command as to his
marriage, related in Hosea i. 2 ; we then hear of his children
by the said wife in the remainder of the chapter, and
in the next chapter we are told, Hosea ii. 2, that the
woman is not his wife, and from verse 2—13 we have an ex
tremely indecent speech of Hosea on the misdeeds of the
unfortunate creature he married, wherein, verse 4, he com
plains of the very fact that God commanded in chap. i. 2.
Hosea iii. 1—3 relates another indecent proceeding on
Hosea’s part, and his purchase of another mistress; whether
girls’ morals are improved by the contemplation of such
divine commands, is a question that might fairly be urged
on Lord Sandon before he next distributes Bibles to little
children of both sexes. The said girls must surely, as they
study Hosea iv. 10—18, wonder that God expresses his in
tention not to punish impurity in verse 14. It is impossible,
in reading Hosea, to escape from the prevailing tone of
obscenity; chaps, v. 3, 4, 7; vi. 9, 10; vii. 4; viii. 9;
ix. 1, 10, 11, 14, 16; xii. 3 ; xiii. 13, every one of these
has a thought in it that all must regard as coarse, and which
comes distinctly within the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice
as to obscenity; there is scarcely one chapter in Hosea that
does not, with offensive reiteration, dwell on the coarsest
form of wrongdoing of which women are capable. Joel iii.
3 is objectionable in a comparatively slight degree. Amos,
although occasionally coarse, keeps clear of the gross
obscenity of Hosea, as do also Obadiah and Jonah. Micah i.
7, 8, 11, would scarcely be passed by Sir Hardinge Giffard,
nor would he approve Micah iv. 9, 10. Nahum iii. 4—6
is almost Hoseatic, and Habakkuk ii. 5, 16 runs it close.
The remaining four prophets are sometimes coarse, but
have nothing in them approaching the abominations of the
others, and we close the Old Testament with a sigh of
relief.
The New Testament has in it nothing at all approaching
the obscenity of the Old, save two passages in Revelation.
The story of Mary and Joseph is somewhat coarse, espe
cially as told in Matt. i. 18—25. Rom. i. 24—27 is distinctly
�^4
IS THE BIBLE INDICTABLE?
obscene, and i Cor. v. i, vi. 9, 15, 16, 18, would all be
judged indelicate by Her Majesty’s Solicitor-General, who
objected to the warnings given by Knowlton against sexual
sin. The whole of 1 Cor. vii. might be thought calculated
to arouse the passions, but the rest of Paul’s Epistles may
pass, in spite of many coarse passages, such as 1 Thess. iv.
3—7. Heb. xiii. 4 and 2 Peter ii. 10—18 both come into
the same category, but it is useless to delay on simple
■coarseness. Revelation slips into the old prophetic inde
cency; Rev. ii. 20—22 and xvii. 1—4 are almost worthy
•of Ezekiel.
Can anyone go through all these passages and have any
•doubt that the Bible—supposing it to be unprotected by
statute—is indictable as an obscene book under the ruling
of the Lord Chief Justice? It is idle to plead that the
writers do not approve the evil deeds they chronicle, and
that it is only in two or three cases that God appears to en
dorse the sin ; no purity of motives on the writers’ parts can
be admitted in excuse (Trial, p. 257). These sensuous stories
■and obscene parables come directly under the censure of the
Lord Chief Justice, and I invite our police authorities to
show their sense of justice by prosecuting the people who
circulate this indictable book, thereby doing all that in them
lies to vitiate and corrupt the morals of the young. If they
will not do this, in common decency they ought to drop
the prosecution against us for selling the “ Fruits of
Philosophy.”
The right way would be to prosecute none of these
books. All that I have intended to do in drawing attention
to the “ obscene ” passages in the Bible, is to show that to
•deal with the sexual relations with a good object—as is
presumably that of the Bible—should not be an indictable
misdemeanour. I do not urge that the Bible should be
prosecuted : I do urge that it is indictable under the present
ruling; and I plead, further, that this very fact shows how
the present ruling is against the public weal. Nothing could
be more unfortunate than to have a large crop of prosecu
tions against the standard writers of old times and of the
present day, and yet this is what is likely to happen, unless
some stop is put to the stupid and malicious prosecution
against ourselves. With one voice, the press of the country
—omitting the Englishman—has condemned the “ foolish ”
verdict and the “ vindictive ” sentence. When that sentence
as carried out, the real battle will begin, and the blame of
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15
the loss and the trouble that will ensue must rest on those
who started this prosecution, and on those who shield the
hidden prosecutor. The Christians, at least, ought to join
with us in reversing the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice,
since their own sacred book is one of those most easily
assailable. The purity that depends on ignorance is a
fragile purity ; the chastity that depends on ignorance is a
fragile chastity; to buttress up ignorance with prison and
fine is a fatal policy; and I call on those who love freedom
and desire knowledge, to join with us in over-ruling by
statute the new judge-made law
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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Place of publication: London
Collation: 47 p.
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Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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Edition: New edition, with notes
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Collation: 47 p.
Notes: Published by Freethought Publishing Company, with a preface by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. The copy has been annotated with reference to anatomical, psychological and medical evidence given by Bradlaugh and probably used by him in the trial of Bradlaugh (and Annie Besant) for publishing the pamphlet. Annotations on this copy refer to the text 'Animal Physiology' by William Benjamin Carpenter.
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Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850
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Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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A collection of digitised nineteenth-century pamphlets from Conway Hall Library & Archives. This includes the Conway Tracts, Moncure Conway's personal pamphlet library; the Morris Tracts, donated to the library by Miss Morris in 1904; the National Secular Society's pamphlet library and others. The Conway Tracts were bound with additional ephemera, such as lecture programmes and handwritten notes.<br /><br />Please note that these digitised pamphlets have been edited to maximise the accuracy of the OCR, ensuring they are text searchable. If you would like to view un-edited, full-colour versions of any of our pamphlets, please email librarian@conwayhall.org.uk.<br /><br /><span><img src="http://www.heritagefund.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/attachments/TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" width="238" height="91" alt="TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" /></span>
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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An account of the resource
Edition: New edition, with notes
Place of publication: London
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Notes: Published by Freethought Publishing Company, with a preface by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. The copy has been annotated with reference to anatomical, psychological and medical evidence given by Bradlaugh and probably used by him in the trial of Bradlaugh (and Annie Besant) for publishing the pamphlet. Annotations on this copy refer to the texts 'The Physical Life of Woman' by Dr George H. Napheys, 'The Lady's Manual of Homeopathic Treatment' by E.H. Ruddock and 'Textbook of Physiology' by William Brinton.
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A collection of digitised nineteenth-century pamphlets from Conway Hall Library & Archives. This includes the Conway Tracts, Moncure Conway's personal pamphlet library; the Morris Tracts, donated to the library by Miss Morris in 1904; the National Secular Society's pamphlet library and others. The Conway Tracts were bound with additional ephemera, such as lecture programmes and handwritten notes.<br /><br />Please note that these digitised pamphlets have been edited to maximise the accuracy of the OCR, ensuring they are text searchable. If you would like to view un-edited, full-colour versions of any of our pamphlets, please email librarian@conwayhall.org.uk.<br /><br /><span><img src="http://www.heritagefund.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/attachments/TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" width="238" height="91" alt="TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" /></span>
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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Edition: New edition, with notes
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Victorian Blogging
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An account of the resource
A collection of digitised nineteenth-century pamphlets from Conway Hall Library & Archives. This includes the Conway Tracts, Moncure Conway's personal pamphlet library; the Morris Tracts, donated to the library by Miss Morris in 1904; the National Secular Society's pamphlet library and others. The Conway Tracts were bound with additional ephemera, such as lecture programmes and handwritten notes.<br /><br />Please note that these digitised pamphlets have been edited to maximise the accuracy of the OCR, ensuring they are text searchable. If you would like to view un-edited, full-colour versions of any of our pamphlets, please email librarian@conwayhall.org.uk.<br /><br /><span><img src="http://www.heritagefund.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/attachments/TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" width="238" height="91" alt="TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" /></span>
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Conway Hall Ethical Society
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Title
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Fruits of Philosophy. An essay on the population question
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An account of the resource
Edition: New edition, with notes
Place of publication: London
Collation: 47 p.
Notes: Published by Freethought Publishing Company, with a preface by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. The copy has been annotated with reference to anatomical, psychological and medical evidence given by Bradlaugh and probably used by him in the trial of Bradlaugh (and Annie Besant) for publishing the pamphlet. Annotations on this copy refer to the texts 'What Young People Should Know' by Prof. Burt G. Wilder and 'Des Fraudes' by Beyeret.
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Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850
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Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891
Besant, Annie, 1847-1933
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Freethought Publishing Company
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