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FRAGMENTS OF A PRISONER'S DIARY
should remain faithfull to the ideal of wifely chastity. Our social law-givers wanted to improve upon nature and rectify a mistake of the Maker. Sex-impulse is natural, and demands satisfaction. If it is a sinful desire, why did not God exclude it from the scheme of his creation ? It is sheer sophistry to argue that he created human beings with the sinful desire in order to give them a chance to be virtuous. If God is good, everything he created must also be good. The moralists are the most immoral and the religious are the most irreligious people in the world. To try to improve on the scheme of God's creation is to insult God. Instead of abandoning their perverse, irrcligious notions of morality and stupid social taboos, the orthodox persecute those who obey the will of God and act according to the providentially ordained laws of nature. The young wife of the old man could not obey the man-made law and natural law at the same time. She obcyed God instead of man. Hence she was sinful in the eyes of society which places human wisdom above divine dispensation, while pretending to be guided by this.
The young woman seems to have been particularly spirited, possessed of admirable courage and frankness, the appreciation and practice of which would improve the moral tone of our social life. The old man told that he did not intend to kill her. He wanted to persuade her 210
