"Sensuality, too, which used to show itself coarse, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism."
Agnes Repplier was an American essayist and biographer. She was known for literary criticism and reflective essays published in major periodicals. Her work was widely read in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.