This old world in the main is right: it's you who are wrong." "Of course everything can be argued, Frank; but I hold to my conviction: the best minds even now don't condemn us, and the world is becoming more tolerant.[31] I didn't justify myself in court because I was told I should be punished lightly if I respected the common prejudices, and when I tried to speak afterwards the judge would not let me." "And I believe," I retorted, "that you were hopelessly beaten and could never have made a fight of it, because you felt the Time-spirit was against you.

How else was a silly, narrow judge able to wave you to silence?
Do you think he could have silenced me?
Not all the judges in Christendom.

Let me give you an example.

I believe with Voltaire that when modesty goes out of life it goes into the language as prudery.

I am quite certain that our present habit of not discussing sexual questions in our books is bound to disappear, and that free and dignified speech will take the place of our present prurient mealy-mouthedness.