SIR RICHARD BULLY: Then Psyche is not your daughter?

MRS. HOCKEY: Oh yes, she is, but she was born many years before I married the late Mr. Hockey.

SIR RICHARD BULLY: She is an illegitimate child then?

MRS. HOCKEY: I do not know about that, sir, I do not know the difference. She is my child, and I am proud of her, and her father is too.

SIR RICHARD BULLY: Yes, yes, of course, but Psyche is born out of wedlock; whose daughter is she?

MRS. HOCKEY: I do not think it is right to ask me the name of the gentleman. Twenty years ago I was an hupper ousemaid in the service of a noble family in the country, and the father of Psyche was then a young fellow of twenty-four, now he is a lord, but Psyche knows him only as uncle Macdonald. Must I really tell his name?

THE RECORDER: No, no, Mrs. Hockey, don't. If you will write it on this piece of paper and hand it to me that will do.-(Mrs. Hockey hands the paper to the Recorder.)—You need not give the name to counsel, it is irrelevant, I will destroy this paper forthwith.

MRS. HOCKEY: I thought it would be hirrelevant; as Psyche does not know the name, nobody else need know it. The late Mr. Hockey, who was butler to the family, adopted Psyche, and he loved her as if she was his own child, so there can't be any difference I s'pose.

MR. MACINTOSH WOOD: Did Psyche's father take her to Italy last year?

MRS. HOCKEY: Yes he did, and he says that she is the most intelligent girl he ever saw. He will send her to a school in Paris and will make a lady of her. She is to go next week.

SIR RICHARD BULLY: Gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the defence, and the author of the incriminated book has been in the witness box to give you his explanation of the indicted passages

and his definition of "Sexual Selection." I believe I shall not be far wrong if I state that my learned friend's appeal to you has not altered your opinion of the gross indecency of these photographs of nude figures and of the obscenity of the book. Let us examine the defence, which is to the effect that the indicted sentences and passages are scientific expressions describing scientific facts, and that the photographs are reproductions of works of art. But I ask you, as true followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, can this argument stand in a Christian country? We are first of all Englishmen and Christians, and as such we abhor indecencies and obscene books in every shape and form, whether they are clothed in scientific garb or not. We have all heard the name of Darwin, and we all know that he has been a man without any religious principle; he has been the man who tried to discredit the holy books of Christendom by setting up his own history of creation, a theory that man descends from the ape, and the ape again from lower animals. Thus the whole of the biblical history of creation, according to Darwin, is a myth. This man should have been prosecuted for blasphemy, and if he lived now, and should continue his atheistic work, he would no doubt in due course fall into the clutches of the law. Yes, gentlemen, the law of blasphemy is yet on our statute book, and Darwin with his accomplices, amongst whom Huxley was the worst, were blasphemers and infidels, so that it cannot be an excuse to say that an indicted sentence has been taken verbally from the books of these men who have undermined the rock on which Christianity is built. If a man selects the most obscene passages, or the most blasphemous ones, from these pernicious books on evolution, he revives the crime committed by the original authors, and should be punished for it. I know, gentlemen, that none of you are anxious to read these works of infidels, and I have observed the disgust on your faces when I was reading the indicted parts of this book.

ELIAS SHORT: Do not speak for me, sir, I have read Darwin's works, and you saw no disgust on my face anyhow.

THE RECORDER: Please do not interrupt the learned counsel.

SIR RICHARD BULLY: So much for Darwin and his followers. True Christians ignore this man and disdain to read his works

and his attacks on Christianity. If we come to the other names mentioned as the authors of certain indicted passages, who of you has ever heard the name of Westermarck or Schopenhauer, both Germans, no doubt, and, gentlemen, you know what you have to think of books and other things made in Germany, including German philosophers.

The Encyclopædia Britannica, it is true, is a Christian book, and we certainly were very much surprised to hear that it contains an article on "Sex" and another on "Reproduction." How these articles got into that admirable work cannot be explained, they must have been smuggled in by some sub-editor, and I have just been informed that one of these articles has been written by a man called J. Arthur Thomson, some obscure writer, and that in the next edition these two articles will be eliminated. That accidentally one of the obscene passages hails from a standard work cannot alter the fact that every mention of the abominable and suggestive word "parthenogenesis" is obscene. A man with -name Westermarck, who is said to have written most of the passages on marriage, and who has given that indecent definition of marriage, is certainly one of these foreign infidels, probably an obscure German, perhaps of French origin, and you know how lewd and libidinous these foreigners are.

MR. MACINTOSH WOOD: I beg your pardon, Mr. Westermarck is a Russian, born at Helsingfors, he is neither German nor French.

SIR RICHARD BULLY: Russian, that is just as bad. Anyhow neither that man nor the other called Schopenhauer, I am glad to say, are of English parentage, and the author of the book should have been more careful in selecting and quoting from these foreign works. Darwin and Huxley are bad enough, but these foreign atheists are infinitely worse. You have heard from the detectives who have, as a matter of duty, read the book, that they were thoroughly disgusted with its contents, and you have heard from the Rev. Whitfield that the title itself is considered by him dangerous and tempting for the young.

In Christian England we are anxious to suppress this kind of literature which sails under the flag of science, and it is my opinion

that it would have been best if Darwin's works had been suppressed from the beginning. Two years of hard labour would have kept him from his pernicious work. Now it is too late, and we must put up with the evil resulting from his teachings, but the police will have a sharp eye on all publications dealing with questions of "Sex." Sex and sexuality is at the bottom of all evil, and we must, if we want to preserve the purity of our young men and girls, never allow these obscene-books to be published.

The photographs of nude men and women, found at prisoner's shop, have solely been mentioned to show you the character of the books and pictures in which the prisoner dealt with predilection. We have all been shocked and surprised to hear from a young girl of seventeen that they were beautiful. That clearly shows that the prisoner has corrupted the mind of this girl. How can the nude be beautiful? It is obscene and a temptation for the young.

A VOICE FROM THE COURT: And for old hypocrites.

THE RECORDER: Policeman, find out who has made this unseemly remark, and bring him before me.

SIR RICHARD BULLY: As Christians we have our own ideas about the beautiful, which are opposed to the very loose principles of ancient Greece and Rome, and we know better what is beautiful and what is pure than those foreigners who are so anxious to introduce French and Italian morals into our country.

THE SPIRIT of Galileo GALILEI:

E la Bellezza

Cosa celeste, è il grande anel che lega
La terra al cielo, è un' armonia soave
Che dall 'arpe invisibili ed eterne
Dell' immenso universo emana e canta
Inni di gloria al ciel.-Togliete il Bello
Dalla terra, che resta? Argilla e pianto!
La Bellezza ha magie fascinatrici
Che sorprendon la mente e fan pensare

Ad alte cose. Musici, poeti,

Sofi, artisti, orator, ciascun' s'inspira

Alle sue fonti. Il gran Tirteo sui campi
Animava i guerrier colla lusinga
Di quel premio gentil che la Bellezza
Riserbava al valore. In ogni tempo

Essa ebbe templi, sacerdoti ed are

Perchè il bello è immortal come le stelle
Perche' il bello è la grande, è la sublime
Poesia del creato!

SIR RICHARD BULLY (continuing): Our holy church and the sacred traditions of Christianity have defined for us for ever what matrimony means, and to give other definitions like those contained in this book is an outrage on our sense of decency. Procreation, gentlemen, is incidental to marriage, not an essential feature; marriage is a holy sacrament, and to make it a sexual selection for the sole purpose of reproduction, as this book does, is a desecration of our holiest feelings, and an attack on our purest thoughts and principles. This book, I repeat it, is written with the intent to corrupt the morals of Her Majesty's subjects, and I ask you to find the prisoner guilty, and thereby to assist the police in exterminating this kind of literature which is doubly dangerous as it is falsely styled scientific, and thus may fall into the hands of those who are legitimately anxious to increase their knowledge.

THE SPIRIT OF DARWIN :

O vice of English men and women too,
Worst foe of what is beautiful and true,

Showing the canker in the young green tree,
Prophetic of the dry rot yet to be,

O vile hypocrisy, the nation's bane,

With thee no mind is pure, no body sane.

THE RECORDER (summing up): The question to be answered in this case is a very simple one, and the jury should not take any notice of side issues. All they have to decide is whether, in their honest opinion, the book as a whole or in certain parts is obscene. I cannot help thinking that the jury must come to that conclusion. If you consider the passages which have been read by counsel for the prosecution you can scarcely get any other impression than that the book is a dangerous book for the young and adults alike. The defence has tried to prove that it is a scientific work written in the interest of science and not with the intention of corrupting the morals of Her Majesty's subjects. It has been shown that the book is a summary of different works which have not been indicted, such as books by Charles Darwin,