In their book The Lessons of History, historians Will and Ariel Durant warn: "No man, no matter how brilliant or knowledgeable, can achieve a single life to such fullness of understanding that he can safely judge and reject the customs or institutions of his society, because these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiments in the laboratory of history . A young person hot with hormones will wonder why he should not give free rein to his sexual desires and if he is not controlled by custom; morals or laws, he can waste his life before having reached sufficient maturity to understand that sex is a river of fire which must be watered and cooled by a hundred constraints if it does not want to consume in chaos both the the individual and the group. (Durant 43) The rebellion and sexual revolution against the supposedly "archaic" and "outdated" traditions and customs of the ancients play an important role in the modern acceptance of licentious behavior between men and women, and more particularly in the maintenance of 'homosexuality. To lightly dismiss such lessons of history in favor of an “enlightened” worldview is short-sighted, foolish and doomed to failure. Homosexuality is a mental and cultural aberration that should be considered an illness instead of being tolerated or even praised. Literary critic, novelist, Christian apologist and philosopher C.S.Lewis, on the subject of adherence to tradition, writes in The Abolition of Man that "In older systems, the type of man the teachers wished to produce as well as the motivations which pushed them to produce it were prescribed by the Tao – a norm to which the teachers themselves were subject and from which they had claimed no freedom to deviate. They did not conform men to any model. had chosen. They passed on what they had received: they initiated the young neophyte into the mystery of humanity that surrounded him and them. They were only old birds teaching young birds to fly. (Lewis 451) The ancient world, with few exceptions, universally condemned homosexual practices Although it was most severely censored with the advent of Christianity, it was fully denounced by the ancient Hebrews (i.e. i.e. Genesis 19:1-12; Leviticus 18:22, 20:13) as well as in long-lived pagan societies such as the ancient Greeks. and among Roman, Frankish, and Teutonic tribal cultures (Flacélière 62-4). Christianity was in no way encouraged