'The Church never succeeded in obtaining universal acceptance of its sexual regulations, but in time it became able to enforce sexual abstinence on a scale sufficient to produce a rich crop of mental disease. It is hardly too much to say that medieval Europe came to resemble a vast insane asylum.'
IHNJ, IJLS 'Rich Crop of Mental Disease' and 'Europe came to resemble a vast insane asylum' :)
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'The Church never succeeded in obtaining universal acceptance of its sexual regulations, but in time it became able to enforce sexual abstinence on a scale sufficient to produce a rich crop of mental disease. It is hardly too much to say that medieval Europe came to resemble a vast insane asylum.'
IHNJ, IJLS 'Rich Crop of Mental Disease' and 'Europe came to resemble a vast insane asylum' :)