


A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others he is an artist in divining a great deal from the little that he has felt. “It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. Brown, here, in one of his latest and most graceful poems, refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of time-"None knows it but to love it none name it but to praise.” Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, "Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse." Mr. They that are penniless are yet rich, in that they still have this majestic diversion." In another place this experienced observer has said, "There are times when I prefer it to sodomy." Robinson Crusoe says, "I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art." Queen Elizabeth said, "It is the bulwark of virginity." Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked, "A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush." The immortal Franklin has said, "Masturbation is the best policy." Michelangelo and all of the other old masters-"old masters," I will remark, is an abbreviation, a contraction-have used similar language. “Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, "To the lonely it is company to the forsaken it is a friend to the aged and to the impotent it is a benefactor.
