This impressed me deeply. “But,” I almost shouted,there are horrible things which are really and actually forbidden—you can’t deny that fact.
And they are forbidden once for all, and so we must renounce them.
I know of course that there are such things as murder, and all possible kinds of vice,
but shall I then, simply because such things exist, go and become a criminal?”
“We shan’t be able to finish our discussion to-day,” said Max, in a milder tone. “You must certainly not commit murder or rape, no.
But you haven’t yet reached that point where one can see what is ‘permitted’ and what is really ‘taboo.’
You have realized only a part of the truth. The remainder will come after, rely on it.
For instance, for the past year or so you have had in you an instinct which is stronger than all the others, and which is held to be ‘taboo.’
The Greeks and many other people, on the contrary, made a sort of divinity out of this instinct, and honored it by great celebrations.
What is now ‘taboo’ is therefore not eternally so, it can change.
To-day everyone is permitted to sleep with a woman as soon as he has been with her to a parson and has gone through the ceremony of marriage.
With other races it is different, even to-day.
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