Vive La Différence

Sex is not overemphasized in modern life: it is underrated. It flares out with dark intensity because it has been forced into too small a compartment. No wonder Freud found sex stalking the mind, when the mind had driven it out of the normal social framework. Bentham and Marx, the factory and the commune, the “purely economic” society have led to Freud and the purely sexual subconscious.

These truths are as old as man. But one must disguise truth, today, as empirical hypothesis, and introduce eternal realities as fashionable findings of the clinic. The virtue of a new book, And God Created Man and Woman, by Lucius F. Cervantes, S.J. (Regnery, $4.00), is that it presents these truths in terms of empirical sociology, and (a rare thing) does this honestly. The results of a contempt for reality often are measurable and the cases, statistics, and “scientific findings” are marshaled here with scrupulous accuracy.

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Garry Wills

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Sex is not overemphasized in modern life: it is underrated. It flares out with dark intensity because it has been forced into too small a compartment. No wonder Freud found sex stalking the mind, when the mind had driven it out of the normal social framework. Bentham and Marx, the factory and the commune, the “purely economic” society have led to Freud and the purely sexual subconscious.

These truths are as old as man. But one must disguise truth, today, as empirical hypothesis, and introduce eternal realities as fashionable findings of the clinic. The virtue of a new book, And God Created Man and Woman, by Lucius F. Cervantes, S.J. (Regnery, $4.00), is that it presents these truths in terms of empirical sociology, and (a rare thing) does this honestly. The results of a contempt for reality often are measurable and the cases, statistics, and “scientific findings” are marshaled here with scrupulous accuracy.