"It is necessary to tell everything, because in order to know a matter fully,

one must hide nothing;  but one must tell everything suitably to our

manners;  and, in telling, not to go against traditional forms.

For the extreme delicacy of our language, our hypocrisy, or, if you will,

our decencies, imperiously demand that these forms be respected.

I shall therefore submit my expressions to them;  they shall be as a light veil which, 

satisfying decency, covers shocking nudities without stealing away the outlines.

We pronounce without shame the names of the instruments which give death,

and we blush to designate, to pronounce the names of those which give life.

The cult of the image of masculinity spread over a large part of the globe. 

It flourished for a long time in Egypt, Syria, Persia, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, etc. 

It was and still is vigorous in India and some parts of Africa.  It has even

propagated as far as America.  When the Spaniards made the discovery

of that part of the world, they found this cult established among the Mexicans. 

What is more surprising,it has been preserved almost up to our own times

among  the Christians of Europe.  It existed in France in the sixteenth

century;  one finds traces of it even today in some parts of Italy."

In the evolution of religions over the generations, older religious beliefs

often are adopted as part of the newer beliefs, or the older beliefs become

identified with evil.  Throughout history many of these old beliefs remain

part of our culture and beliefs even into modern day religions.

Jacques-Antoine Dulaure explores the secrets of the ancients which still

exists today in our modern day beliefs.  You will be amazed.