But if the corruption of public opinion is too great to allow our first law to be carried out, then our guardians of the law must turn legislators, and try their hand at a second law.

They must minimize the appetites, diverting the vigour of youth into other channels, allowing the practice of love in secret, but making detection shameful.

Three higher principles may be brought to bear on all these corrupt natures.
'What are they ?' Religion, honour, and the love of the higher qualities of the soul.

Perhaps this is a dream only, yet it is the best of dreams; and if not the whole, still, by the grace of God, a part of what we desire may be realized.

Either men may learn to abstain wholly from any loves, natural or unnatural, except of their wedded wives; or, at least, they may give up unnatural loves; or, if detected, they shall be punished with loss of citizenship, as aliens from the state in their morals.