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The conviction, which throughout haunted Tennyson, that in default of a clear and certain prospect of immortality a man's soul may be lost utterly, that he must sink into sensuality, and cannot indeed be much blamed for it logically, is the moral exemplified in this play. It comes out in Edgar's excuse for seducing and deserting the girl — Edgar : What can a man then live for but sensations, Pleasant ones ? Men of old could undergo Unpleasant for the sake of pleasant ones Hereafter, like the Mo...slem beauties waiting VI. ] THE PLAYS 167 To clasp their lovers by the golden gates. For me, whose cheerless Houris after death Are Night and Silence, pleasant ones — the while, If possible, here, to crop the flower and pass. Farmer Dohson : Well, I never 'eard the likes of that afoor. Nor has any one else, in a London theatre. We have here the recurrent idea that scientific knowledge saps and destroys the basis of morality, and lets loose all the unruly affections of sinful men. Marriage is to Edgar an obsolete tradition — Edgar : When the man, The child of evolution, flings aside His swaddling bands, the morals of his tribe, He, following his own instincts as his God, Will enter on the larger golden age ; No pleasure there tabooed.
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