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What does it mean?
Past eras treated love as sinful.
In plain terms
Love was once seen as sinful.
What can you take from it?
Values change over time.

Where it applies

  • moral reform
  • societal reflection

Putting it to work

  • debating morals
  • historical study

Questions to consider

  • What is seen as a crime today?
  • How will we look back?

Another view

Some societies still suppress love.

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  3. I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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