Kipling wrote:
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were
promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and
ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and
the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
He was right.
... And the Gods of the Copybook Headings with Terror and Slaughter return!