lear or hate.

And it is within the experience of love, more especially of being mutually in love, that the deepest happiness is found, no matter whether that love is between persons of the opposite or of the same sex. The nature of love is the same. No other plane of human experience has ever transcended it, the contrary claims of escapists disregarded. A life without love contains a vacuum. which only love can fill. Money, material things and social position are not the answer, nor is compensation in one's work. With parental

demonstrations of love being the key to the ultimate happiness of the child and of generations to come, a vital spiritual responsibility rests in parental hands. The infant product of the most careless orgasm becomes a sacred trust for nurture and unfoldment of the best which lies within. The parental and cultural upbringing of children in light of the conditioning process is the greatest challenge to the human race. From it stems the future of evolution, individually and collectively. In the Atomic Age it can determine the very survival of Man.

HADRIAN AND ANTINOUS:

Mack Fingal

the love-life of an emperor

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The accompanying article is based primarily upon two books about the Roman emperor, Hadrian: MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN, by Marguerite Yourcenar (translated from the French by Grace Frick), Farrar, Straus & Young, New York, 1954. 313 pp., $4.00, and MAGNIFICENT HADRIAN. by Sula-

mith Ish-Kishor, Minton, Balch & Co., New York, 1935;.. 214 pages.

The article combines the history recorded in the two volumes to tell the story of the love life of an Empor or, rather than to present a review of the two works. The author of the article has appeared on pages of Mattachine Review before, with material related to the legal aspect of human sex problems.

However, in presenting this sketch about Hadrian and Antinous, à minor according to Anglo-American law. neither the author nor the Mattachine Society should be construed as sug. gesting that other homosexuals are justified in having relations with minors.

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LTHOUGH the MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN has been on the bestsellers list for some time, with several reviews of it in newspapers and

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magazines throughout the country. (see July-August issue, Mattachine Review), it is a shocking thing that in these reviews almost no mention is made of the affair with Antinousin spite of the fact that Hadrian devotes considerable space to it in the MEMOIRS!

Gerald Sykes, in the NEW YORK TIMES review, referred merely to "shocking irregularities" adding that there are "many Hadrians, at least in miniature, in the U. S. A., today." But no mention whatsoever of Antinous. The WASHINGTON POST and TIMES-HERALD mentioned the matter not at all; and the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. could write only of a 'thoughtful sensualist... disposed to

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sexual deviation." The SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE commented on Hadrian's "beloved Antinous" and his "carnal appetites," while TIME magazine jibed recklessly at Hadrian's perversions." MAGNIFICENT HADRIAN, a book which has been available in public libraries for 20 years, is also worth reading, along with the MEMOIRS, which were written by Hadrian just before he died and appear as a sort of autobiography in the form of a letter to his 17-year-old adopted: grandson, Marcus Aurelius, who later became emperor. Mlle. Yourcenar

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