1818 Jan y 2

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Asceticism continued

§. 5. Eccentricity condemned

§. 5. War made by Asceticism against the eccentric pleasures of

the bed: its causes—its groundlessness

§. In eccentric conjunctions that between male and male the chief but of popular

rage—why:—Sole grounds of condemnation in this case bearing reference to Utility

what.

Of these several shapes that in which, partnership having place, the species is

/being/ the same, but the sex instead of correspondent and opposite, the same, has

attracted preferably /with preferences/ principally and almost exclusively attracted

/fixed/ the attention of /provoked the hostility /attacks/ /rage of// the dæmon of

asceticism. In this case too almost /little less than/ the whole of it /that passion/

has been engrossed /occupied/ by that modification in which the sex is on both sides

the male. Were consistency /If consistency had/ at all consulted, between this case

and that in which the sex is on both sides the female, little or no /if any/

difference should have place in the energy of the expressions by which the sentence

of condemnation is pronounced. But from the whole system of reasoning rather

imagination by which on this ground the course taken by the principle of asceticism

is determined, /it may be seen/ consistency is /will be seen to be/ altogether

excluded all regard to consistency is (it may be seen) excluded no such guide

consideration as that of regard for consistency ever has place to no such guide as

consistency is any attention ever paid /admission every permitted /granted//.

Of the difference between /in respect of/ the aspect shewn in two cases between

which the difference if any is so inconsiderable, the cause /causes/ lies not far

beneath the surface.

1. In the punishment /sufferings/ of those who presume to disobey its /his/

prohibitions the malevolent affection of /in/ the ascetic looks for /beholds/ a sort

of compensation or indemnity for the privations to which it /he/ subjects itself

/himself/. To the infliction of punishment, delivery of evidence is a necessary

preliminary: and in the case of the female sex physical circumstances refuse

constantly /pertinaciously/ that evidence which they are capable of affording, and

occasionally /which occasionally/ and accordingly do occasionally afford in the case

of the female.