The Dizzy Heights of Absurdity:

Considered dispassionately, this interpretation is soon to be absurd and quite incapable of consistent application. If notice is to be taken, not of the purpose of the author, but only of the possible effect of his work on susceptible minds, then obviously large numbers of books of English literature - among them some of the best - must be condemned as obscene. For they contain words and passages that would have a sexually disturbing effect on some page break minds. The Oxford Dictionary, the Bible, Shakespeare's plays, Gulliver's Travels, Tom Jones, Burns' poms, the School for Scandal, and the Family Doctor, are all books that we know have been searched avidly for their erotic passages by the young - and by adults as well. Many others, past and present, could be added to the list. According to Cockburn's definition, all of them, and countless others, are obscene publications!