FOOTNOTES:

[275] It should be said, in justice to the play in question, that the idea of purification by evil was evidently not present to its author.

[276] See Part I. p. 33, this book; "Social Statics," 87-89.

[277] "Le Luxe," p. 2.

[278] "Le Luxe," p. 12.

[279] "Fabian Essays in Socialism," pp. 27, 145, etc.

[280] I have used the word here as elsewhere in its more general, not in its specific, technical sense.

[281] "Fabian Essays," p. 57.

[282] See "Jahrbücher für Psychiatrie," 1889, "Ueber Neurosen und Psychosen durch sexuelle Abstinenz."

[283] See essay by Charles Dudley Warner in the "North American Review" for April, 1885.

[284] S. M. Green: "Crime," Art. III. Chap. V.