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Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 23. 3920. UNWHOLESOME LITERATURE.

“THE spreading plague of unwholesome literature" is the principal subject of the Lenten Pastoral issued by (he Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. Dr. Cleary addresses a word of caution to the heads of iamilies and to young people in regard to the “insidious class of unwholesome magazines ami works of fiction which are calculated to stain the fine (lower of innocence, and to inject the germ of moral infection into souls,” iimi urges that it is the duty of parents to raise l a family customs-barrier against the introduction of such moral infection among their growing children. “.Such fiction plays a more deadly part in, the home than the germs of typhoid and influenza,” says Dr. CUpiry, “ami against it the Catholic housefa ther and house-molher should raise a merciless harrier of moral quarantine. The same remark applies to those unhappily large classes of magazine and hook fiction which advocate racial suicide, throw a halo of romance around violations of" conjugal fidelity, and gloss over crime and vice as something for which the individual is not personally responsible, but for which the whole and sole blame is to be found in lack of free will, in heredity, economic determinism, or human society. Besides these there is yet another and poisonous class of fiction. It brings its readers —sometimes mere youths and maidens—into contact with the foulest thoughts of bad men and corrupt women, and with scenes and incidents such as those which (as St. Paul says) should not be so much as named among us.”

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2106, 23 March 1920, Page 2

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Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 23. 3920. UNWHOLESOME LITERATURE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2106, 23 March 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 23. 3920. UNWHOLESOME LITERATURE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2106, 23 March 1920, Page 2

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