I hesitate to say these things, but it is not because of the subject--… — Walden

Walden — Henry David Thoreau

I hesitate to say these things, but it is not because of the subject--I care not how obscene my _words_ are--but because I cannot speak of them without betraying my impurity. We discourse freely without shame of one form of sensuality, and are silent about another. We are so degraded that we cannot speak simply of the necessary functions of human nature. In earlier ages, in some countries, every function was reverently spoken of and regulated by law. Nothing was too trivial for the Hindoo lawgiver, however offensive it may be to modern taste. He teaches how to eat, drink, cohabit, void excrement and urine, and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles.

Endroit: ¶392
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