The Philadelphia Times - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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The hideous exposure of Oscar Wilde is a vindication of Dr. Nordau's diagnosis of fin-de-siecle literature and art as the symptoms of physical and moral degeneracy, and it justifies those healthy-minded critics who have stood out against the whole fashionable and hysterical "movement" as obscene, abnormal and diseased.
Lord Queensberry is probably not a model in either thought or conduct, but he is a man, and he had publicly and persistently denounced the artistic charlatan as a moral leper, unfit to be on the earth. A jury, with the acquiescence of Wilde's own counsel, has found the statement true, and revolting as the trial has been, the result cannot but be beneficial.
It is a warning to the young minds that have been dazzled by the flippant cynicism and false emotionalism of these Yellow Book egomaniacs that beneath the glittering surface of their artifice is not merely emptiness, but foulness and corruption.