For, were it true, as we have just seen, Sodom might have been as moral as the tents of Abraham; and in a perfect state there would be a fitting place for both.

The social organism indeed, in its highest state of perfection, would manifest the richest variety in the development of such various parts.

It might consist of a number of motley communes[10] of monogamists and of free-lovers, of ascetics and sybarites, of saints and [Greek: paiderastai]--each of them being stones in this true _Civitas Dei_, this holy city of God.

Of course it may be contended that this state of things would be desirable; that, however, is quite a different question.

But whatever else it was, it would certainly not be moral, in any sense in which the word has yet been used.
The second supposition I spoke of, though less openly absurd than this one, is really quite as false.