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By Emanuel Swedenborg—First Published in Latin at Amsterdam, 1768. Translated by William Frederic Wunch. New York: Swedenborg Publishing Co., 1938. 686 pp.
CHRISTIANITY AND SEX. By Richard Cabot, M.D. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1938. 78 pp.
SEX SATISFACTION AND HAPPY MARRIAGE. By the Rev. Alfred Henry Tyrer. New York: Emerson Books Inc., 1938. 160 pp.
Throughout the ages, sex—its sins and joys—has been one of the major preoccupations of the christian church. Its place, rights, and limitations have been precisely defined, time after time and by sect after sect, beginning with Saint Paul's famous edict: 'But if they cannot contain, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn'.
The books here reviewed form an interesting group. The authors, an eighteenth century mystic, a modern Anglican clergyman and a prominent physician of today, present unusual contrasts.
The author of Marital Love, here presented in a new translation, is the famous Emanuel Swedenborg, eighteenth century scientist, scholar, and founder of the Swedenborgian church. In his early life a brilliant physicist, mining expert, inventor and anatomist, after middle age he became a student and teacher of