The First “Sin”

Abstract

IT occurred to me lately, whilst reading in the September number of the Contemporary Review, an article by Lenormand called “The First Sin”, that it may be possible to turn another page of that very interesting history of ideas, the reading of which appears to be one of the great tasks allotted to this century. Although it seems unlikely that the idea suggested to me by the article has not also occurred to others, I cannot discover that anything has been said about it, for the author seems strangely enough to lead one to the door, as it were, and leave one there without opening it; I should therefore like, if you will permit me, to lay it before your readers, and hear what they have to say about it.