Bloch (Beiträge zur Ætiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis, Bd. I, p. 98) points out the great interest taken by the saints and ascetics in sex matters.
This omission was made by the original publisher of the "Discourse;" several of the most important passages throughout have been similarly cut out.
Rev. J. M. Wilson, Journal of Education, 1881. At about the same period (1882) Spurgeon pointed out in one of his sermons that by a strange, yet natural law, excess of spirituality is next door to sensuality. Theodore Schroeder has recently brought together a number of opinions of religious teachers, from Henry More the Platonist to Baring Gould, concerning the close relationship between sexual passion and religious passion, American Journal of Religious Psychology, 1908.