Christianity did not change his sentiment on this subject.

The modern Englishman, Swede, Dane, Norwegian, or German regards love in exactly that deep, serious, noble way that his pagan ancestors did.

I think we can say that different races have differences of feeling on sexual relations, which differences are very much older than any written history.

They are in the blood and soul of a people, and neither religion nor civilization can utterly change them.
So far I have been speaking particularly about the differences in English and French novels; and a novel is especially a reflection of national life, a kind of dramatic narration of truth, in the form of a story.

But in poetry, which is the highest form of literature, the difference is much more observable.