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But if the gross flesh which has sinned is to be punished by the matter which it has abused, why may it not be purified by it ?' 'You may laugh, if you will, at both, and say again, as I have heard you say ere now, that the popular Christian paradise and hell are but a Pagan Olympus and Tartarus, as grossly material as Mahomet's, without the honest thorough-going sexuality, which you thought made his notion logical and consistent.

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