The Turks had their harems, and they knew women--likewise, they knew men. The Turks had walls, and bars, and locked gates, and sentinels outside to watch. But the Turks knew how vain are walls, and barred windows, locked gates and vigilant sentinels. Therefore, the Turks always kept eunuchs in the harem itself, eunuchs whose watchful eyes were ever upon those ladies of the harem. And the eunuchs were powerful men, strong and fierce, _but unsexed_. They had the strength to guard the women, _without the desire to enjoy_. But the Roman Pope builds harems in all Christian lands--_harems for his priests to whom he denies marriage_. There are no eunuchs to guard these women. The men who go in unto them are men of like passions as ourselves; and there is no eye to watch, no tongue that will tell, _after_ the priest has gone inside. * * * * * * * Our common sense condemns this enforced celibacy which pagan popes invented for their own selfish, ambitious purposes. Or rather, the Popes borrowed it from the Turkish Sultans who would not allow their chosen body-guard, the Janissaries, to marry. In course of time, the Janissaries became more powerful than the Sultan, and they had to be exterminated. The Pope's Janissaries are now more powerful than the Pope; and the wretchedness of his position is that he can neither massacre them, nor rob them of their women. Of all the exalted slaves the world ever saw, the Pope is perhaps the most conspicuous example. The Jesuits rule the priesthood; the Jesuits rule the cardinals; the Jesuits rule the Pope--and the Jesuits have the pick of the most beautiful women throughout the Christian world. * * * * * * * On such a system as this--a system which has denied so many millions of men and women _the God-given right to live according to Nature_, history ought to have much to say. What is the evidence and the verdict of impartial History?