The Church attacked the habit of the bath on the ground that everything that makes the body more attractive tends towards sin. Dirt was praised, and the odour of sanctity became more and more penetrating. "The purity of the body and its garments", said St. Paula, "means the impurity of the soul."(* note: Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vo1. iv, p. 3I) Lice were called the pearls of God, and to be covered with them was an indispensable mark of a holy man.
Source: Bertrand Russell :Marriage and Morals, 1929
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