The Herald - Monday, May 27, 1895
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The Herald,
AN
EVENING JOURNAL,
With which is amalgamated the
Evening Standard.
IMPARTIAL
NOT NEUTRAL
MONDAY, 27TH MAY, 1895:
The eclipse of Oscar Wilde is complete. Any "light" he may have had — and there is not much doubt as to his mental endowments — has been extinguished for ever. It is idle to talk about that man's moral nature. It is quite certain now that he had none. Of his unspeakable crimes we can say nothing. The subject is so awful as to arbitrarily forbid comment. We notice that Mr Justice Wills expressed his regret that he could not award more than two years' imprisonment to Wilde and his [?]ory associate. That is a regret which will be echoed throughout the whole Empire. What moral havoc these men, especially Wilde, have caused in their ill-starred lifetime no man can tell, nor even venture to estimate. The pity is that they are not so treated as to prevent the possibility of similar disgraceful conduct on their part in the future.