"For, as in the Roman State, when there are no more worlds to conquer and no rivals to destroy, nations exchange the desire for power for the the lover of art, and so by a gradual, yet continual, enervation and decline turn from the vigorous beauties of the nude to the more subtle allurements of the draped, and then sin...k to actual eroticism and ultimate decay. "Winston Churchill, The River War, 1899.Hmmmmmm......