Thus it was that Dante made a new heaven and a new hell out of a girl's nod in the streets of Florence.

Thus it was that Paul founded a civilisation by keeping an ethical diary.

But the one essential which exists in all such cases as these is that the man in question believes that he can make the story as stately to the whole world as it is to him, and he chooses his words to that end.

Yet when a work contains expressions which have one value and significance when read by the people to whom they were addressed, and an entirely different value and significance when read by any one else, then the element of the violation of sanctity does arise.

It is not because there is anything in this world too sacred to tell.