ing than those of Socrates. Unlike St. Paul, the latter did go to the bother of doing his duty to the State by marrying and having sons. Yet the Christian world has survived in spite of its beliefs-which would wipe out any Great Power in a single generation if taken seriously. In modern times, they have had high explosives so that they have not been dependent upon mere numbers in order to defeat their enemies.

The fact of the matter is that the Greeks fell because they did not develop non-human sources of power (gunpowder, steam, electrical energy) for this purpose. Their philosophers and men of science reached a certain theoretical perfection, but came to a dead end because it did not turn to experimentation and the pursuit of power (cf Bacon). Thus it ended in skepticism and we cannot go on blaming the Greeks for failing to produce

an endless stream of Aristotles and Platos right down to the present day.

It would be consoling but inaccurate to believe that immoral nations perish and the virtuous ultimately prosper. History teaches otherwise. No nation has ever become a firstclass Power without breaking all the moral rules which hold for the individual. To suppose that virtue automatically triumphs is to court disaster and is just as silly as to assume that the wicked automatically decline. The only case I know of where a city perished for "outrageously moral misconduct" is the case of the city of Sodom. But that was not due to the operation of natural causes (biological or otherwise) but to the special intervention of Jehovah.

Toronto, Dr. John G. L. Pearson (Formerly Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Manitoba.)

St. Paul on Sodomy

by Kenneth McIntosh

Recently I was referred to a quotation in the New revised Standard Version of the Bible, I Corinthians (Chapter 6, verses 9, 10) in which St. Paul writes,

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inhert the kingdom of God."

I must confess that reading this passage in the King James Version, I had never quite taken account of the implications of St. Paul's thought, and if I were a member of the fundamentalist school of Biblical thought and found I had to take this passage literally then I would have no other choice than to abandon my whole life's work and join the ranks of the hopeless and unredeemed; to wander over the waste places of this earth and put in the time until consignment to everlasting hell. This does not