Moral Poison In Modern Fiction R. Brinley Johnson

"It İs A Grim Enough Charge Against Our Generation. Dare We Pronounce İt Untrue? Uponwhat Theories Of Private Morality Are The Young Now Fed?Morals Are, Obviously, İnfluenced İn Most Cases By Example And The Atmosphere Of Thehome; But Are Not These Themselves Mainly Produced, Whether Consciously Or Not, By Theteaching And Tone Of These Who Profess To Think? In These Latter Days Most Thought Reachesus Through Fiction, Most Emotion Through Drama.without Hesitation, I Would Maintain That An İmmense Number Of Novels Now Beingwritten Contain Much Deadly Poison.let Me Not Be Misunderstood. I Have No Wish To Draw Down The Blinds Again Uponvital Questions Of Sex, To Bring Out Once More The Comfortable "Wraps" Of Victorian Days,To Uphold Reserve İf Not Silence, Or Shut The Door Upon Open Talk. Nor Would I Say Toyouth: "We Are Older And Therefore We Know; Believe Us, Things Were Far Better Andhappier İn Our Time."