{Angelic Innocence [continued (3)]}[16th August 1988]

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But one of the most scandalous of many pieces of senseless destruction perpetrated by our Age and Culture, is the destruction of the innocence of love and human [sic] beauty, though the muddying of those crystal waters by perceptions of ubiquitous sexuality. It is partly a lack of proper education,* but much more the relentless merchandising of the sexual mono-culture. It is a great pity: because it has debased love, and beauty, and art, and no doubt in due course it will be found to have driven truth itself into hiding; and, of course, it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

*{Also a coarseness which imagines itself to be not just common, but universal.}

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