30 NOVEMBER 1962, Page 9

And Love Alone

The notion of chastity as a virtue is taking a hammering these days. Lay evangelists in the press are pitching into it with eloquent en- thusiasm. On Sunday night we had the Professor of Psychological Medicine in Edinburgh Uni- versity lending, in the third of his Reith Lectures, Powerful support to the process of demo- lition. How can the pulpit resist it? Any day now those parsons most anxious to be with it will be dropping into their sermons that chestnut about the ripple of relief that rolled like a wave of jubilation along the queue stretching in- terminably away from the pearly gates. 'What's the excitement?' said someone far hack in line. `Pass it on,' came the glad cry at last: 'Fornica- tion doesn't count!'

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