midnight
No , we are not utterly lost to the fine sense of propriety of this chaste and demure age . But no matter how etiolated and sickly the thought , it regains its colour and health when it breathes the literary air . Prudery can not but relish the tang of lubricity when flavoured with the classical . Moreover , if Socrates and Montaigne speak freely of these midnight matters , why not Khalid , if he has anything new to say , any good advice to offer . But how good and how new are his views let the Reader judge . 'T is very well to speak `` of evoking the spirit before the bodily communion , '' but those who can boast of a deeper experience in such matters will find in Socrates ' dictum , quoted by Montaigne , the very gist of reason and wisdom . Those wise ones were as far-sighted as they were far gone .