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| 37356 | May we not say that there is probably some sort of transmutation of essences continually effected and effectible in the human frame? |
| 36989 | Has there been during the nineteenth century, taken as a whole, a distinct advance in the matter of sexual morality as compared with the eighteenth? |
| 58475 | And, further, of what use would mutilations be that had nothing to do with tightness of the foreskin? |
| 58475 | How could its practically universal occurrence be explained otherwise? |
| 58475 | How could the time of entry into manhood remain without ceremonious festival? |
| 34309 | The question will soon be,wrote a journalist describing the American"smart set,""who is to be your husband next year?" |
| 34309 | --or,"Has your last season''s wife re- married yet?" |
| 34309 | Divorce is to be allowed, for example, after desertion for three years; why not for two? |
| 34309 | How far is prostitution tolerable, so that a medical system of registration should be introduced into England? |
| 34309 | How many of us realize that up to the seventies it was quite improper for a lady to ride on the top of an omnibus? |
| 34309 | Is it possible, and is it healthy, to deny the sex- instincts all satisfaction? |
| 34309 | Ought two people in love to remain sexually apart simply because one of them is still married to, let us say, an incurable lunatic? |
| 34309 | What is really the truth? |
| 34309 | Will it be considered an exaggeration if I say that it is almost better to have a Puritan standard than none at all? |
| 15687 | But what? |
| 15687 | CHAPTER III THE OBJECTS OF MARRIAGE What are the legitimate objects of marriage? |
| 15687 | CHAPTER V THE LOVE- RIGHTS OF WOMEN What is the part of woman, one is sometimes asked, in the sex act? |
| 15687 | How in practice, one may finally ask, is this readjustment of the home likely to be carried out? |
| 15687 | If her husband''s hours are reduced to eight, well that gives her a chance, does n''t it? |
| 15687 | If we are capable of realising all the problems which thereby arise we must be forced to ask ourselves:_ Is this state of things desirable_? |
| 15687 | Must it be the wife''s concern in the marital embrace to sacrifice her own wishes from a sense of love and duty towards her husband? |
| 15687 | Or is the wife entitled to an equal mutual interest and joy in this act with her husband? |
| 15687 | The question, as she pertinently concludes is, as indeed it still remains to- day:"Have we more than the average proportion? |
| 28050 | But what will be added? |
| 28050 | She asks"What does he= own=?" |
| 28050 | THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT Of course, every one knows that marriage is a legal contract; but whom does it bind? |
| 28050 | WHICH IS SUPERIOR? |
| 28050 | Why are most small business men narrow, egoistic, conservative? |
| 28050 | Why are nearly all small farmers reactionary, individualistic, distrustful, competitive? |
| 28050 | Why is the woman of the streets, who spends her sex earnings upon her lover, scorned universally? |
| 28050 | Why, do you imagine, the woman who brings to a penniless husband, not only herself but a fortune as well, is looked down upon in many countries? |
| 28050 | Woman has ceased to ask,"Is he beautiful?" |
| 28050 | or,"How much can he= pay=?" |
| 13722 | How is it possible to put a stop to this terrible social evil? 13722 And has He implanted in us as the strongest of our instincts that which can not elevate and must debase? 13722 But in the meantime what ought the schoolmaster to do? 13722 Did He who graced with His presence the marriage at Cana in Galilee really countenance a ceremony which was a prelude to sin? 13722 Does experience really warrant any such conclusion? 13722 How are children to develop a holy reverence for their own bodies unless they know of their wonderful destiny? 13722 How is it possible to_ elevate women_ while the demand for them for base purposes is so great? 13722 Is He whom we address daily asOur Father"willing to be described by a name with which impurity is of necessity connected? |
| 13722 | Is it any wonder if it fails to see things in their true relations? |
| 13722 | On what great moral question dare we leave the young to find their own way absolutely without guidance? |
| 13722 | The question next arises: should it be the mother or the father who gives this instruction? |
| 13722 | These last would argue-- why put the facts of reproduction on a different footing from those of digestion and respiration? |
| 13722 | What results may we reasonably expect from adequate and timely instruction? |
| 13722 | When the question is put,"How often do you have gymnastics at your school?" |
| 13722 | Who would not rather that his daughter were killed in her innocence than that she should be doomed to such a fate? |
| 13722 | Why should the child think it"dirty"to fondle and excite his private parts or to talk about them with his boy friends? |
| 13722 | who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" |
| 22090 | And why do n''t your children learn their Catechism?" |
| 22090 | But are we, it may be asked, to leave the child''s restless, inquisitive, imaginative brain without any food during all those early years? |
| 22090 | III The chief question that we have to ask when we consider the changing status of women is: How will it affect the reproduction of the race? |
| 22090 | IV What are the ideals of the stage of civilization we of the Western world are now moving towards? |
| 22090 | If the ideal of_ quantity_ is lost to us, why not seek the ideal of_ quality_? |
| 22090 | Is it possible to discern the actual embodiment of this new phase of the woman movement? |
| 22090 | Julie, your children do n''t learn their Catechism?" |
| 22090 | On whom shall she be dependent? |
| 22090 | The question naturally arises: Which method is the more effective? |
| 22090 | What has been the result? |
| 22090 | What will be the ultimate effect of the woman''s movement, now slowly but surely taking place among us, upon romantic love? |
| 22090 | Yet even so far as the rule has been obeyed, and not evaded, has it effected any good? |
| 31671 | Whom shall we marry? 31671 And does not this requisite alone fulfil the Divine interpretation of marriage, that''they are no more twain but one flesh? 31671 And yet, what less has_ she_ a perfect right to require from a young man who presumes to pay his addresses to her? 31671 Are there not real physiological facts existing which utterly preclude the possibility of this most desirable result? 31671 But to the question why do you even think of getting married? 31671 But, is the trouble cured, is it permanently eradicated from the system? 31671 Can man so school himself in self denial as to accomplish this end? 31671 From Whence does the Sex Proceed and What Determines It? 31671 Has not the little that remains become merely carnal, on his part at least? 31671 Her main thought and study should now be,How can I best fulfil these new duties and responsibilities? |
| 31671 | I have, it is true, met with the complaint-- but in what class of cases does it occur? |
| 31671 | Is carnal pleasure to be the only binding tie? |
| 31671 | Is not this picture deplorable? |
| 31671 | Is she chastity itself in thought, word and deed? |
| 31671 | Now this is all very beautiful in theory and desirable in practice, but_ is it practical_? |
| 31671 | Now which of the two is preferable-- the pride of a virtuous youth, or the roué exhausted and worn out by sexual abuses? |
| 31671 | Now, young man, do you mean to be loyal, to be her real husband until death dissolves the allegiance? |
| 31671 | One quality: Is she strictly virtuous? |
| 31671 | Through infancy, childhood and Young ladies, why do you marry? |
| 31671 | Was every topic so discussed and used up that nothing is now left for an exchange of views? |
| 31671 | What was done during courtship that made time pass so rapidly and so pleasantly? |
| 31671 | Where now is the tree, its branches and leaves with their buds and blossoms, and what is the fruit? |
| 31671 | Would Almighty God command,"Thou shalt_ not_ commit adultery,"and then so create man as to compel him to break his Divine injunction? |
| 31671 | Would this"pay?" |
| 31671 | Young ladies, why do you marry? |
| 31671 | how can I be a true help- meet to him? |
| 13161 | A problem in sexual ethics Eugenics, sexual sin, ignorance, and superstition Is Platonic love normal? |
| 13161 | And, so desiring, the question is, How can they best fulfil such desire? |
| 13161 | But how am I to take care of it if I do n''t get acquainted with it? |
| 13161 | But how can I be a father or mother if some one who knows does n''t tell me what precedes fatherhood and motherhood? |
| 13161 | But why is that little while not as holy as forever? |
| 13161 | Could anything be more horrible, or criminally wicked_? |
| 13161 | For is he not strong, and what is his strength for but to delight his sweetheart? |
| 13161 | Have you ever tried to see what this came from and goes to? |
| 13161 | Home would say:"What ever started you thinking about such things?" |
| 13161 | How can I if I am blanked every time I express my curiosity? |
| 13161 | How can I if all the books are closed? |
| 13161 | How can it be properly exercised? |
| 13161 | How could it be otherwise? |
| 13161 | How, then, can a husband and wife tell how it is, or will be, in_ their_ particular case? |
| 13161 | In a world of hushers who are liars? |
| 13161 | In a world of liars who are hushers? |
| 13161 | Is there no one anywhere who''ll be honest with me? |
| 13161 | This philosophy of vulgar denial? |
| 13161 | This philosophy of wallowing surrender? |
| 13161 | What have you got to say about it? |
| 13161 | What is right and what is wrong under these new possibilities_? |
| 13161 | What more could be asked? |
| 13161 | What purpose can it serve? |
| 13161 | What''s the matter with my body that I dare not mention it? |
| 13161 | What''s the matter with sex that everybody''s afraid to talk about it? |
| 13161 | Who would eat if he did n''t have to? |
| 13161 | Why do we corrupt it? |
| 13161 | _ Carry nothing to excess!_ Which suggests the question often asked: How frequently may coitus be engaged in? |
| 6579 | And what next? |
| 6579 | And why should I not boldly say the same thing-- exactly the same thing-- about a woman? |
| 6579 | But how are young people to get the right knowledge? |
| 6579 | But why? |
| 6579 | Firstly, some will want to say,"All that is very well for those who are religious, but how about the people who are not religious?" |
| 6579 | Have you noticed the lines on the face of that greatest of men-- Abraham Lincoln? |
| 6579 | Is it likely that men and women who were made for God should ever find any lasting satisfaction or any way to victory in life apart from Him? |
| 6579 | Is it not inevitable that husbands so treated should begin to wonder whether their wives really love them? |
| 6579 | Is it to be wondered at that in that section of society it was a common saying that"only fools get married"? |
| 6579 | Its victims worry about it-- But need they? |
| 6579 | May I say a plain word or two about the shyness and self- consciousness in society which so torment young girls? |
| 6579 | The really difficult question is,"How is it to be achieved?" |
| 6579 | Then is it not time that somebody boldly said that husbands ought to do some of the housework? |
| 6579 | Then, secondly, why are wild oats evil things to sow? |
| 6579 | To begin with,"Why is self- abuse wrong?" |
| 6579 | To say with utter sincerity and absence of self- will,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" |
| 6579 | What has been the secret of their victory? |
| 6579 | What is the way out of this difficult bit of life? |
| 6579 | What then is so serious about licentiousness? |
| 6579 | When will all who really love take up the challenge of this disordered modern world? |
| 6579 | Why must they be condemned? |
| 6579 | Why should the union of true lovers be held to be impure before marriage and pure after it? |
| 6579 | Why should we not endorse the shrug of the shoulders with which society treats them? |
| 6579 | Why should we not take our share of the task? |
| 6579 | Why then can not love sanctify passionate relationships outside marriage? |
| 6579 | Why then should they all be piled upon the weary back of the woman? |
| 6579 | _ Firstly_, what are the facts about its consequences? |
| 19825 | ''Did n''t you realize what you were doing?'' 19825 ''Did n''t your father and mother ever explain these things to you?'' |
| 19825 | Ah, what if they should? 19825 Am I doing it or is it impossible to do so unless I change my environment and associates? |
| 19825 | CHAPTER XXI WHY BOYS GO ASTRAY"What can a boy do, and where can a boy stay, If he is always told to get out of the way? |
| 19825 | CHAPTER XXII HOW SHALL THE CHILD BE TOLD? |
| 19825 | Can you give me the desired information or can you recommend some good book? |
| 19825 | Do men expect that of the women they marry? |
| 19825 | Does this necessarily mean that I never can have a baby? |
| 19825 | Has my whole life been ruined by this man?" |
| 19825 | How can we expect children of parents with criminal tendencies to become good citizens? |
| 19825 | How does this produce blindness? |
| 19825 | In considering a separation, the parents''first thought should be,"What is best for my children?" |
| 19825 | Is it right? |
| 19825 | Is this true, and if true, why? |
| 19825 | Kindly tell me if anyone who has abused her organs while so young could make a good wife or become a mother, and can these marks of sin be removed?" |
| 19825 | Last comes the question,"What is my duty to myself? |
| 19825 | Now, what I want to ask you is this, do you think it would be right for me to marry any man, with him thinking that I am good or innocent? |
| 19825 | Now, what I want to know and want you to tell me is this,''Can I ever marry a decent, respectable man without him knowing of this affair?'' |
| 19825 | One of the first questions a physician asks a patient is,"How are your bowels, do they move regularly every day?" |
| 19825 | The employer asked in reply,"But have you not a gentleman friend?" |
| 19825 | Then the question comes,"What is my duty to my wife or my husband?" |
| 19825 | What are drugs, anyhow? |
| 19825 | What good is there to be served by flaunting so dark and disgusting a subject before the family circle?'' |
| 19825 | What is my answer to such a question? |
| 19825 | What is the solution of the problem? |
| 19825 | Why? |
| 19825 | Will you kindly tell me some remedy that will keep me from becoming pregnant? |
| 19825 | made a success of marriage, why could not the other ninety- five? |
| 29056 | And if you ever wish to talk to me again you will feel free to come, will you not? |
| 29056 | And who made Cain? |
| 29056 | But do n''t you believe in boys and girls being friends at all? |
| 29056 | Do n''t you think that little rascal should be nearly annihilated? |
| 29056 | Do you suppose it is really as bad as it seems to us? 29056 Have you come with another problem?" |
| 29056 | Have you studied physiology? |
| 29056 | If that is so why do n''t fathers tell their boys about it so that they can behave better when they are young? |
| 29056 | In the same way that he made Adam and Eve? |
| 29056 | Man is a common noun, masculine gender, third----"What does masculine gender mean? |
| 29056 | Was it the physiology of man or woman? |
| 29056 | Was that what he meant when he said he was not surprised that Will Grey was so bad a boy, for his father was a very wild young man? |
| 29056 | What is man that thou art mindful of him? |
| 29056 | What shall I do about it? |
| 29056 | Who would have imagined that such a nice appearing boy as Carl Woodford could be so base? 29056 Will you send him to me, Miss Bell?" |
| 29056 | You can see that if any one had injured your mother in her girlhood it would have been an injury to all her children, can you not? |
| 29056 | You have studied grammar, will you parse the word man? |
| 29056 | After a moment''s silence she asked,"Carl, what is it to be a man?" |
| 29056 | Are you like your parents in any of their capabilities?" |
| 29056 | Can you wait?" |
| 29056 | Do you like to think that they are rough with her, or playing at lovering with her? |
| 29056 | Do you not begin to see that we can not value ourselves too highly if we have the right idea of what our real worth is? |
| 29056 | Dr. Barrett rose and, bringing a book from the shelves, opened it and showed Carl an illustration, saying;"Did you ever see such a picture as this?" |
| 29056 | He might have created each individual as he did Adam, but what would have been the result? |
| 29056 | How did you do it?" |
| 29056 | How do you want her to be treated by the boys who are her school- companions? |
| 29056 | How does the grammar define gender?" |
| 29056 | Is it a pleasant thought that she is allowing them to caress her or write her silly sentimental notes?" |
| 29056 | It may occur to you to ask why, if we are not responsible for our inheritances, is it needful to give them any particular thought? |
| 29056 | May I claim the privilege of acting for a little time in that capacity? |
| 29056 | Say, Susie, I think all this nonsense about lovers and sweethearts is silly rot, do n''t you? |
| 29056 | Shall it be a nation of invalids? |
| 29056 | Shall this be, in a hundred years, a nation of drunkards? |
| 29056 | Who is the third?" |
| 29056 | Will you forgive me? |
| 29056 | Will you not become a White Cross knight? |
| 29056 | Will you not, even if you can not join an organized society, become a standard- bearer of the White Cross, pledging yourself to its five obligations? |
| 29056 | [ Illustration]"What are they?" |
| 31861 | And how are they held in place? |
| 31861 | And what does that mean, mother? |
| 31861 | And what is that responsibility? 31861 And what is the furniture in the different stories?" |
| 31861 | But do you not think that you as a father should have some part in this blessed work of guiding our daughter? 31861 But maybe I''ll never have any children, mamma; what then?" |
| 31861 | But you do n''t mean that a girl of fourteen could become a mother? |
| 31861 | But, mamma, do you mean that this is all because Mr. Orland drinks? |
| 31861 | But, mother, if it is not right to be familiar, why does God make us with those desires? |
| 31861 | Can one tell when it passes? |
| 31861 | Do n''t you think it seems worse for girls to swear or drink or gamble than for boys? |
| 31861 | Do n''t you think it silly for girls to be so''spooney''? |
| 31861 | Do n''t you think it strange that we never want little rooms with furniture huddled close together, except in our bodily dwellings? 31861 Do they really consider it a true engagement, to end ultimately in marriage, or is it merely an excuse for freedom of association?" |
| 31861 | Do you know, dear, that women and girls always make the moral standards which maintain in the society of which they form a part? |
| 31861 | Do you mean, mamma, that I have a quick temper because you had one? |
| 31861 | Do you remember once seeing in a hen that Ellen was preparing for dinner a great number of eggs of all sizes? 31861 Do you think women have as much ability as men? |
| 31861 | Does that seem such a strange idea to you? 31861 Has nothing been written to the men, how they must help and protect women?" |
| 31861 | Have you any idea what a wonderful feat has been accomplished when a baby has learned to walk? 31861 How can I help it, if I got my temper from you and just passed it on to them? |
| 31861 | How long do they stay engaged? |
| 31861 | I like the Saxon word better than the Latin one, do n''t you? |
| 31861 | I suppose girls do n''t understand it, do they? 31861 Is father such a poor substitute, then?" |
| 31861 | Is n''t it awful, mamma? 31861 Is n''t it just as much of a disgrace to him as to her?" |
| 31861 | Is n''t it painful, mother? |
| 31861 | Is n''t it sad that ignorance does not save us from punishment? |
| 31861 | It is quite true that a woman did not plan it, but did you know that it was completed under a woman''s supervision? |
| 31861 | It''s putting a great responsibility on women, is n''t it? |
| 31861 | Mamma, do n''t you think the fathers have something to do as well as the mothers, in trying to give a better inheritance to the children? |
| 31861 | My, no, that would have been absurd; but I do n''t see how that applies to Clara? |
| 31861 | No, was it? 31861 O, father, do you think girls have as much power as that? |
| 31861 | O, is n''t it dreadful that the Chinese bind up the feet of the little girls as they do? |
| 31861 | O, mamma, do you really mean that? |
| 31861 | O, mamma, smoking is n''t inherited, is it? |
| 31861 | O, mother, women do n''t have eggs, do they? 31861 Taking the parents into an adjoining room, Doctor Garnier said to the father,''Are you a drinker?'' |
| 31861 | Then, father, you''d say we ought never to correspond with boys? |
| 31861 | To the health, mother? 31861 What does that big word mean, mother?" |
| 31861 | What does that word mean, mother? 31861 What wondrous things can men do that women ca n''t do?" |
| 31861 | Why, mother, do n''t we just grow into women? |
| 31861 | Why, mother, it sounds like a fairy story, a tale of a wonderful magic palace, does n''t it? 31861 Will my children have a temper because I have one?" |
| 31861 | Would n''t that be a good way to decide your own conduct-- to do only those things which you''d be perfectly willing your daughter should do? |
| 31861 | Yes, by controlling yourself you will have given them greater power of self- control; that is worth working for, is n''t it? 31861 Yesterday I heard some of the girls talking and one said,''Did you know that Edith Chenowyth had a baby last night? |
| 31861 | You did n''t ask Sadie what she meant? |
| 31861 | You mean that if I overcome my temper, my children will not be so likely to have tempers? |
| 31861 | ''Does your friend walk there, too? |
| 31861 | And Clara Downs has n''t got these marvelous rooms?" |
| 31861 | And call the girls by name, too?" |
| 31861 | And sure enough, in a moment he was walking at her side, saying,''What a lovely day? |
| 31861 | Are n''t men really smarter than women?" |
| 31861 | At what hour do you walk?'' |
| 31861 | But it ca n''t be that way with our bodies, for we do n''t have any new organs added or finished off to make us women?" |
| 31861 | But what is a baby? |
| 31861 | But, mother, ought a girl let a young man spend money on her?" |
| 31861 | By the way, you have always talked freely to her about life''s mysteries; have you explained her approaching womanhood to her?" |
| 31861 | Did it just grow bigger?" |
| 31861 | Did n''t we study about them in our school physiology?" |
| 31861 | Did you ever wonder where this room is?" |
| 31861 | Do you know why we did not finish off these rooms in our house sooner?" |
| 31861 | Do you remember how many feet of intestines there are in the body?" |
| 31861 | Do you remember what we were reading in Sesame and Lilies the other day about woman''s queenly power? |
| 31861 | Do you think that? |
| 31861 | Do you walk here every day?'' |
| 31861 | Does n''t the bladder empty itself through that passage?" |
| 31861 | Helen was silent a moment and then asked,"Do n''t you think the law of heredity a very cruel law? |
| 31861 | How can one girl learn all those hard things?" |
| 31861 | How did that happen? |
| 31861 | How many stories is it?" |
| 31861 | How old is she?" |
| 31861 | I do n''t see now how the baby grows?" |
| 31861 | I knew of a girl whose sister had been engaged several times and who said to her,''Why, Lida, you''ve never been engaged yet, have you?'' |
| 31861 | I said,''Who is that?'' |
| 31861 | Is it not even a greater thing to be a woman than to be a man?" |
| 31861 | Is n''t it?" |
| 31861 | Is n''t she pretty?" |
| 31861 | Is n''t that a wonderful power that is in woman''s hands? |
| 31861 | Is n''t that the way?" |
| 31861 | New organs added, mother? |
| 31861 | On what day did Helen cease to be a baby and become a child? |
| 31861 | On what day will she cease to be a child and become a woman?" |
| 31861 | Quick, light steps answered his call and an urgent young voice demanded,"Where''s mother?" |
| 31861 | She said,''I do n''t know, but is n''t he handsome? |
| 31861 | Suppose the young people knew and thought of these things; do n''t you think they would judge more wisely of what they ought to do?" |
| 31861 | That speaks pretty loudly in favor of doing without corsets, does n''t it?" |
| 31861 | The fine needle might complain that it could not do hard work, but do you think the complaint would be justifiable?" |
| 31861 | They call themselves husband and wife even now,--isn''t that silly?" |
| 31861 | What are these weighty problems?" |
| 31861 | What are they and where are they; when will they be finished off? |
| 31861 | What can you mean?" |
| 31861 | What did she mean? |
| 31861 | What did you learn about your bodily house? |
| 31861 | What have we young people to do with future generations?" |
| 31861 | Where are the new rooms and what is their purpose? |
| 31861 | Which is the greater work?" |
| 31861 | Why did you say you did n''t walk by the lake? |
| 31861 | Would you like to read it to me?" |
| 31861 | Yesterday as I was walking home from school with Belle Dane-- you know her, do n''t you? |
| 31861 | You are not anxious to exchange dishwashing for such work, are you?" |
| 31861 | You have heard of the statue of the Venus de Medici, renowned as being the most beautiful representation of a woman''s figure?" |
| 31861 | You have no hesitancy about speaking to her?" |
| 11965 | How do I love thee? 11965 A man may have no ear for music, and yet be a good and noble man; but who will deny that he lacks something because he has it not? 11965 Again, this morality for which( it is affirmed) society is prepared to pay so horrible a price-- what is it? 11965 And for what purpose is a child to be brought into the world under conditions so imperfect? 11965 And if not, why not? 11965 And on what, in the end, is it based? |
| 11965 | And people begin to ask;"What real difference can a mere ceremony make?" |
| 11965 | And what are a child''s rights? |
| 11965 | And when people enter on this relationship, how are they prepared? |
| 11965 | And when you see the extreme result, the prude on one side, the rake on the other, do you not begin to desire a better way? |
| 11965 | And why? |
| 11965 | Are her"morals"then at the mercy of another person? |
| 11965 | But what should be the nature of that concern? |
| 11965 | But why do you desire it to be easy to judge? |
| 11965 | But yet, is it not a heroic path that I point out to you? |
| 11965 | Can one take such a gift lightly, and pass from one relationship to another with a readiness which would seem contemptible in a friend? |
| 11965 | Can you take that-- and give it-- and pass on, as though it were a light thing? |
| 11965 | Did God join those two together? |
| 11965 | Do you imagine that because you have a contract to protect you while you do it, you are doing what is moral? |
| 11965 | Do you know how many of those married people seized the opportunity to desert each other and go and marry somebody else? |
| 11965 | Do you remember the cry of Julie in"The Three Daughters of M. Dupont"? |
| 11965 | Do you think that medicine will ever be able to rid the world of what are called the diseases of immorality as long as immorality remains? |
| 11965 | Do you wonder if the term"old maid"has become synonym for everything that is narrow, and hard, and prudish and repressive? |
| 11965 | Does anyone suppose that it was a mere instinct of asceticism that drove St. Francis to make out of snow, cold images of wife and child? |
| 11965 | Does she reason all that out? |
| 11965 | Does that mean that he regrets his choice? |
| 11965 | Have they not born into the world with travail of soul, the souls of men and women? |
| 11965 | How are we to know? |
| 11965 | How are we, who have many friends, many neighbours, on whom our standards must react, to judge their lives? |
| 11965 | How could one so physically vital, so humanly and divinely full of love, escape the conflict? |
| 11965 | How many have even tried to understand? |
| 11965 | How many have refrained from scorn? |
| 11965 | How on earth does that change anything at all? |
| 11965 | How shall they see clearly whom we have clothed in darkness, or judge truly who are so terribly alone? |
| 11965 | How would He have developed that spiritual power, how would He have become so great a Lover of the world if He knew nothing of that side of life? |
| 11965 | If it is not given outright in the belief that the gift is final, can the"experiment"be valid? |
| 11965 | If they affirm"the right to motherhood"when they want children, or the satisfaction of the sex- instinct when that need becomes imperious? |
| 11965 | If they determine to snatch at anything that yet lies in their grasp? |
| 11965 | If this be the normal vocation of the normal woman how many of these have been deprived of all that seemed to them to make life worth living? |
| 11965 | In marriage is it possible to know finally until the final step is taken? |
| 11965 | In other words, should physical union be the expression of spiritual union? |
| 11965 | In what way do they differ? |
| 11965 | Is it anything but prostitution to sell yourself for money, whether you are a man or a woman? |
| 11965 | Is it astonishing if they rebel? |
| 11965 | Is it not certain that the expression of love does intensify and deepen love? |
| 11965 | Is it really fair to say to them that their moral standards are going down, that they have no sense now of morality or self- respect? |
| 11965 | Is it the"outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace?" |
| 11965 | Is it worth such a price? |
| 11965 | Is not the"moral problem"really created, not by human nature, but by the attempt to bind what can not be bound and to coerce what should be free? |
| 11965 | Is not this very sense of finality-- this desire to give and burn one''s ships-- of the very essence of love? |
| 11965 | Is passion a cause or an effect? |
| 11965 | Is that difficult to believe in these days, when psychology is teaching us how all- important thought is? |
| 11965 | Is that not the height and depth of cruelty? |
| 11965 | Is the whole community willing to pay it, or is it exacted from us alone? |
| 11965 | Is there any mockery of motherhood more complete than this sacrifice of the child to the mother? |
| 11965 | Is there one here who is not conscious of some dislocation in his life that he must combat? |
| 11965 | Is there one whit of difference, morally, between the prostitution that has no legal recognition and the prostitution that has? |
| 11965 | Is this the ideal of the Sermon on the Mount? |
| 11965 | Is this to abandon the ideal I have been upholding? |
| 11965 | Is this to be a cause for divorce? |
| 11965 | It is something, however? |
| 11965 | Looking at marriage from that point of view, can one desire that it should be anything less than permanent, indissoluble? |
| 11965 | Marriage should be indissoluble; but what is marriage? |
| 11965 | May I sketch what I imagine is the experience of most people? |
| 11965 | Men and women claim the right to"experience,"but experience of what? |
| 11965 | Or is it a means by which that grace is achieved? |
| 11965 | Or who, having loved in any of these ways, will lightly break the bond? |
| 11965 | Ought you to find it hard to believe that what you do in the utmost secrecy affects others, since it affects you, and no man lives to himself alone? |
| 11965 | Should it ever be exclusive or proprietary? |
| 11965 | Should love ever be other than perfectly free, and is not the attempt to bind it essentially"immoral"? |
| 11965 | That which God made, and, therefore, which no man should put asunder? |
| 11965 | There is another test also for love: Does it express itself naturally and rightly? |
| 11965 | There we cease to be literal: how then can we fall back on a literal interpretation at another point? |
| 11965 | This little set of iron rules makes it very easy to judge, does it not? |
| 11965 | To ask yourself whether there is not a third choice before you? |
| 11965 | To have so great and wonderful a thing in your nature and to suppress it as though it were something shameful and weak? |
| 11965 | To some people it seems to be immoral even to ask the question-- on what are your moral standards based? |
| 11965 | V THE MORAL STANDARD OF THE FUTURE: WHAT SHOULD IT BE? |
| 11965 | We do not do it with the other virtues: why do we desire to do it with this one? |
| 11965 | What answer then shall we give to the rising generation which questions us--"On what do you base your moral standards?" |
| 11965 | What difference has been made in their relation to each other? |
| 11965 | What does she buy? |
| 11965 | What is the significance of such teaching? |
| 11965 | What should we-- the community-- hold up as the right standard of sex- relationship, and what methods should we use to impose it on others? |
| 11965 | What then should those do who have this temperament? |
| 11965 | What woman that hast lost her husband does not realize the truth of what I say? |
| 11965 | What, then, are the realities of our nature? |
| 11965 | What? |
| 11965 | When a woman sells her body for money, do you think that it makes it moral that she does it in a church or in a registry office? |
| 11965 | When shall we learn that every human being is a unity, and that to ignore any part of it-- body, mind or spirit-- is idiotic? |
| 11965 | When you hear of a Beethoven deaf or of a Robert Louis Stevenson spitting blood, are you not conscious of disharmony? |
| 11965 | Where is your little set of rules? |
| 11965 | Where then lies the difficulty, since probably men and women alike would agree that what I have said is true? |
| 11965 | Who can say:"These people are moral because they are married, and those are immoral, they are not married?" |
| 11965 | Who knows what is our ultimate goal? |
| 11965 | Who knows yet of what it is capable? |
| 11965 | Who shall deliver us from this body of death? |
| 11965 | Who shall say that he is wrong? |
| 11965 | Who that has once heard this can easily take anything less? |
| 11965 | Whose nature is all harmony? |
| 11965 | Whose temperament guarantees him from temptation? |
| 11965 | Why have we done it? |
| 11965 | Why have we persisted? |
| 11965 | Why should she not cheat and thieve? |
| 11965 | Why should you? |
| 11965 | Why? |
| 11965 | Why? |
| 11965 | know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" |
| 19924 | And now tell me, friend of mine, did you not recognize an old acquaintance in the lady we have been watching so closely? 19924 Oh, my dear, we shall get along very well, I am sure; you love me, do n''t you?" |
| 19924 | Well, wife, what are we going to do? 19924 What shall I do with him? |
| 19924 | ''"[ 36][ Footnote 36:"Is It I?"] |
| 19924 | A shiftless spendthrift must choose for a helpmeet(?) |
| 19924 | According to this rule, a man or woman of large combativeness should select a partner equally inclined to antagonism; then we should have-- what? |
| 19924 | After having duly considered the causes and effects of this terrible evil, the question next in order for consideration is, How shall it be cured? |
| 19924 | And what would be the progeny of such unions? |
| 19924 | And, if it serves a wise and good purpose with them, why should an opposite course not serve an unwise and bad purpose with us? |
| 19924 | Are its feeble first strugglings any evidence of its presence? |
| 19924 | As a learned professor remarks, in speaking of woman,"Who has a right to regard her as a therapeutic agent?" |
| 19924 | As one says,"What is more offensive than the breath of a costive child?" |
| 19924 | Boys, are you guilty of this terrible sin? |
| 19924 | Boys, are you guilty? |
| 19924 | Boys, do you love what is noble, what is pure, what is grand, what is good? |
| 19924 | Brutes and Savages More Considerate.--It is only the civilized, Christianized(?) |
| 19924 | But if colds and great strain upon the parts in question develop such diseases, why are they not seen among the inferior animals? |
| 19924 | But who has not felt the cruel power of these unseen foes? |
| 19924 | Can the unwelcome fruit of a rape be considered, what every child has a right to be, a pledge of affection? |
| 19924 | Can we find such influences? |
| 19924 | Did you ever stop to think how idiots are made? |
| 19924 | Difficulties.--Married people will exclaim,"What shall we do?" |
| 19924 | Do you not remember it altogether? |
| 19924 | Do you value life, health, beauty, honor, virtue, purity? |
| 19924 | Does not he who is prodigal of himself precipitate his own ruin? |
| 19924 | Does this fact afford any proof that those crimes are virtues instead of vices? |
| 19924 | Has he a good situation, with prospects of being able to support his wife comfortably and provide for a family?" |
| 19924 | Has it any appreciable quantity at birth? |
| 19924 | Has it any valuable, useful quantity even when a year old? |
| 19924 | Has the young lady been so educated as to be self- sustaining if necessary? |
| 19924 | Has the young man a home or the wherewithal to obtain one? |
| 19924 | Has the young man a trade? |
| 19924 | Have not Christian women a duty here? |
| 19924 | Have you ever once dared to commit this awful sin? |
| 19924 | How does extravagance lead to unchastity? |
| 19924 | How shall we live?" |
| 19924 | How, then, is it possible for her thus to defile and destroy herself? |
| 19924 | How, then, will he dare to defile himself in the presence of Him from whose all- seeing eye nothing is hid? |
| 19924 | I have, it is true, met the complaint, but in what class of cases does it occur? |
| 19924 | If he is unsuccessful in the conflict, is he alone to blame? |
| 19924 | In this country,--a civilized, so- called Christian country, blessed with all the enlightenment of the nineteenth century, what do we see? |
| 19924 | Is it a crime to strangle an infant at birth? |
| 19924 | Is it a murderous act to destroy a half- formed human being in its mother''s womb? |
| 19924 | Is it a sin to kill a child? |
| 19924 | Is it immoral to take human life? |
| 19924 | Is it not a fearful thing? |
| 19924 | Is it possible that such boys can become good, useful, noble, trustworthy men? |
| 19924 | Is not the thought appalling? |
| 19924 | Is there not an unfair discrimination here? |
| 19924 | Life Force.--To every thinking mind the question often recurs, What makes the fragrant flower so different from the dead soil from which it grows? |
| 19924 | Look but at the progeny of such marriages; what is its value? |
| 19924 | No one dare to approach her without consent before marriage; and why should man not be educated up to the point of doing the same after marriage? |
| 19924 | Ought it not to be considered a crime against childhood and against the race to do otherwise? |
| 19924 | Shall a woman be allowed more than one husband, as is actually the case in some countries? |
| 19924 | Should not the seducer be blackened with an infamy at least as deep as that which society casts on the one betrayed? |
| 19924 | So what do we oftenest observe? |
| 19924 | Such will inquire,"Is there not some compromise by means of which we may escape the greater evils of our present mode of life?" |
| 19924 | Ten years face to face with this poor idiot, whose imbecility was her direct work-- has it not punished her sufficiently?" |
| 19924 | The ancients ate but two meals a day; why should moderns eat three or four? |
| 19924 | The inquiry arises, What are the causes of so monstrous a vice? |
| 19924 | The inquiry naturally arises, What shall be done under these circumstances? |
| 19924 | Then, who can refuse assent to the plain truth that it is equally a murder to deprive of life the most recent product of the generative act? |
| 19924 | This may be a truth hard to accept, but who is prepared to dispute it on logical or moral grounds? |
| 19924 | What Makes Idiots.--Reader, have you ever seen an idiot? |
| 19924 | What May Be Done?--But what is the practical conclusion to be drawn from all the foregoing? |
| 19924 | What can she do? |
| 19924 | What is it that is undermining the health of the race and sapping the constitutions of our American men? |
| 19924 | What reason is there that the subject of the sexual functions should be treated with such maudlin secrecy? |
| 19924 | What subtle power paints the rose, and tunes the merry songster''s voice? |
| 19924 | What wonder that prostitution flourishes in spite of Christianity and civil law? |
| 19924 | What_ should_ people do? |
| 19924 | When children are raised upon such articles, or upon food with which they are thoroughly mingled, what wonder that they occasionally"turn out bad"? |
| 19924 | When is the period that intelligence comes to the infant? |
| 19924 | When, then, is it, that destruction is harmless or comparatively sinless? |
| 19924 | Who can estimate the load of guilt that weighs upon some human souls? |
| 19924 | Who can number the myriads of murders that have been perpetrated at this early period of existence? |
| 19924 | Who will dare to answer"No,"to one of these questions? |
| 19924 | Who will not respect the purity which must characterize sexual relations so governed? |
| 19924 | Why does not Mr. Bergh exercise his function in such cases? |
| 19924 | Why may she not claim protection from other maltreatment as well? |
| 19924 | Why not two or half a dozen instead? |
| 19924 | Why should it be considered an improper or immoral thing to limit the number of children according to the circumstances of the parents? |
| 19924 | Why should so vile a crime as fornication be taken under legal protection more than stealing or the lowest forms of gambling? |
| 19924 | Why should the function of generation be regarded as something low and beastly, unfit to be spoken of by decent people on decent occasions? |
| 19924 | Would he dare commit such a sin in the presence of his father, his mother, or his sisters? |
| 19924 | Young man, youth, have you taken the first step on this evil road? |
| 19924 | a terrible vice? |
| 19924 | and what will he do with me?" |
| 19924 | and who knows how many brilliant lights have been thus early extinguished? |
| 19924 | have you even once in this way yielded to the tempter''s voice? |
| 19924 | how many promising human plantlets thus ruthlessly destroyed in the very act of germinating? |
| 19924 | or noble? |
| 19924 | or pure? |
| 19924 | or, at least, why may she not refuse to lend herself to beastly lust? |
| 19924 | so gross an outrage upon nature''s laws? |
| 19924 | so withering a blight upon the race? |
| 19924 | the elements of a happy, contented, harmonious life? |
| 19924 | the trilling bird, so vastly superior to the inert atmosphere in which it flies? |
| 19924 | what_ may_ they do? |
| 19924 | why did not some kind friend tell me of the harm I was doing myself?" |
| 28458 | Are you more earnest in pursuit of the girl who courts approaches, or the girl who holds you at bay? |
| 28458 | But what is a girl to do? |
| 28458 | Is that so? |
| 28458 | Well,you ask"how shall I know if I am hindering my breathing? |
| 28458 | Well,you may say,"if that is so, what does it matter, then, what I do? |
| 28458 | A friend, noticing his interest, said to him,"What an elegant figure she has, has n''t she?" |
| 28458 | After all, is it not life that we should value? |
| 28458 | And I said,"Is muscular development the primary object of physical education?" |
| 28458 | And even if they are, how can you judge that they are suited to your special case? |
| 28458 | And is it not better to have pure night air from out of doors than the impure night air of a close room? |
| 28458 | And now we ask, How shall we know when we are in a correct attitude? |
| 28458 | And what is a due amount? |
| 28458 | And you, bonnie bride, on this glad wedding day, In the midst of the curious crowd, Do you fancy that life will be always so gay? |
| 28458 | And, after all, was it true friendship? |
| 28458 | Are the family tendencies such that you would be willing to see them repeated in your children? |
| 28458 | Are the majority of people born straight or deformed, sick or well, honest or dishonest? |
| 28458 | Are you living on simple, wholesome food, or eating irregularly of all sorts of trash? |
| 28458 | As an equal, a companion, or as a plaything, a petted child, or a sort of upper servant? |
| 28458 | As you are promised to each other for life, are you not warranted in assuming towards each other greater personal familiarity? |
| 28458 | But how are young people to get really acquainted? |
| 28458 | But how can the oxygen get to the cells in all parts of the body? |
| 28458 | But how is a girl to know all these things concerning her lover''s ideas, thoughts, principles, and purposes? |
| 28458 | But if, through ignorance, you have acquired it, how shall you overcome it? |
| 28458 | Can we not call this innocent fun? |
| 28458 | Can you bear and forbear and forgive? |
| 28458 | Can you cheerfully hope e''en when hoping is vain, And when hope is dead, and to die you would fain, Can you still feel it right you should live? |
| 28458 | Can you judge with any certainty of its lasting qualities? |
| 28458 | Can you watch out the hours by sad beds of pain? |
| 28458 | Can you work, can you wait, do you know how to pray, Can you suffer, and not cry aloud? |
| 28458 | Did you eat a hearty supper late in the evening? |
| 28458 | Do you imagine these young men would have thus spoken had they truly respected the girls? |
| 28458 | Do you not create when you work out with brain some idea and then embody it in some visible form? |
| 28458 | Do you really believe that, dear girl? |
| 28458 | Do you say she can not govern the thoughts of men? |
| 28458 | Do you suppose girls ever thought of the possibility of the young men saying that? |
| 28458 | Does he think that she earns nothing, and that what he gives her of his money is a donation for which she gives no return? |
| 28458 | Does it not seem unfortunate that we should allow ourselves even to form such wrong habits of sitting and standing? |
| 28458 | From what cause? |
| 28458 | Has he true ideas of the dignity of life and his own responsibility? |
| 28458 | Has she good common sense? |
| 28458 | Have you ever thought that to accuse one of a certain wrong act may be just the way to suggest to him the possibility of committing it? |
| 28458 | Have you just reason to suppose that he will make a fair success of life? |
| 28458 | Have you thought how your temper may often be tried? |
| 28458 | How can it be? |
| 28458 | How can love spring up in a minute? |
| 28458 | How can people love when they do not know each other? |
| 28458 | How can you know the true from the false? |
| 28458 | How can you make these ideas agree with each other? |
| 28458 | How much are you worth in your home? |
| 28458 | How much are you worth to the community in which you live? |
| 28458 | How much are you worth to the state, the nation, the human race? |
| 28458 | How much are you worth to yourself? |
| 28458 | How much money would your parents be willing to accept in place of yourself? |
| 28458 | How shall we get back the energy we have expended and so restore our vital forces to their equilibrium? |
| 28458 | How shall you know whether you sleep enough? |
| 28458 | How will he look upon his wife? |
| 28458 | I asked,"Where did you get your hair?" |
| 28458 | I do not ask that he shall have inherited wealth, for that often proves a young man''s ruin, but does he come of an honest, industrious family? |
| 28458 | I do not mean in money, but in themselves? |
| 28458 | I lately received a letter from a young woman who asks,"How freely do you think two engaged young people may talk concerning their future life? |
| 28458 | If disobedience or sin can not make me less God''s child, why should I be good and obedient?" |
| 28458 | If in later years you should hear him complain that he had nothing to work with, would you feel like pitying him? |
| 28458 | If this is so important, how shall we care for the skin? |
| 28458 | In the light of these thoughts I would like to have you ask yourself this question every day, How much am I worth? |
| 28458 | Is creative power limited to reproduction of kind? |
| 28458 | Is he a believer in the godliness of cleanliness? |
| 28458 | Is he looking for an"easy job,"or does he purpose to give a fair equivalent for all that he receives? |
| 28458 | Is his father shiftless, lazy, improvident? |
| 28458 | Is it dignified and noble in us to ignore and disobey Him? |
| 28458 | Is it true? |
| 28458 | Is not this but the essence of selfishness? |
| 28458 | Is she in truth more honorable than the outcast woman? |
| 28458 | Is the family one of the type that she will desire to associate with intimately all the days of her life? |
| 28458 | Is there any way that I can prove whether my dress is tight or not?" |
| 28458 | Is your system oppressed with a superabundance of sweets? |
| 28458 | It was only fun; what harm could there be in that? |
| 28458 | May you not now throw aside much of the restrictions that have surrounded your association and manifest your affection in reciprocal demonstrations? |
| 28458 | May you not with perfect modesty allow endearments and caresses that hitherto have not been permissible? |
| 28458 | Now can you begin to see how much you are worth? |
| 28458 | Of what is it made? |
| 28458 | That being true, why not adopt the sensible fashion of riding on both sides of the horse at once, as men do? |
| 28458 | The Creator under obligations to the created?" |
| 28458 | The next morning the Countess asked, with a strange air of incredulity,"Were you in earnest when you spoke about opening the window? |
| 28458 | The question"How much are you worth?" |
| 28458 | WHAT ARE YOU WORTH? |
| 28458 | WHAT ARE YOU WORTH? |
| 28458 | Was it not love of self, rather than of me? |
| 28458 | Was there in it no uncovered vessel, no old shoes in the closet, no soiled underclothing, nothing that could contaminate the atmosphere? |
| 28458 | Was there opportunity for fresh air to enter your room? |
| 28458 | What ancestral diseases or defects may he transmit to his posterity, which will be your posterity if he becomes your husband? |
| 28458 | What are his defects of temper, or his weaknesses of body? |
| 28458 | What are his ideas as to his responsibility in the founding of a home? |
| 28458 | What are his talents, capacities, habits, inherited tendencies? |
| 28458 | What can you decide in regard to this individual young man to whom you think you have given your heart? |
| 28458 | What diviner, more responsible gift could God have conferred upon us than this? |
| 28458 | What does that mean? |
| 28458 | What has caused this sagging of the abdominal viscera? |
| 28458 | What is he in himself? |
| 28458 | What is he in himself? |
| 28458 | What is he in his inheritance? |
| 28458 | What is his estimate of woman? |
| 28458 | What is love? |
| 28458 | What is love? |
| 28458 | What is the obvious inference? |
| 28458 | What is their worth? |
| 28458 | What life- process is accomplished by breathing? |
| 28458 | What made such a mere child imagine a beau to be an essential agent of a girl''s life? |
| 28458 | What more worthy of our devout study? |
| 28458 | What shall you do to overcome and to gain control of yourself? |
| 28458 | What value does he put upon the wife''s labor in the conducting of the household? |
| 28458 | What wonder if their thoughts go further than her public declaration, and that they may freely surmise the charms that still remain hidden? |
| 28458 | What would it do for us? |
| 28458 | When I disclosed this fact to her she exclaimed, with sadness,"Oh, why was I not made like other girls? |
| 28458 | Who has not seen men devoted to wives who were homely or peculiar, but who were genuinely pure and true? |
| 28458 | Who is he? |
| 28458 | Who is his father, his mother? |
| 28458 | Who is this young man? |
| 28458 | Why do we eat? |
| 28458 | Why should He be so unkind?" |
| 28458 | Why should not the bond between mother and sister be indissoluble? |
| 28458 | Why should there not be the sweetest intimacy between two sisters, whose lives and interests are so closely united? |
| 28458 | Why, how do you get along without one?" |
| 28458 | Will it fasten without pressing out a bit of air from the lungs? |
| 28458 | Will you be a studious, courageous scholar and try to learn life''s lessons well? |
| 28458 | With this thought in your mind, can you answer the question, How much are you worth? |
| 28458 | Would he rather toil at honest manual labor than be supported by a rich father- in- law? |
| 28458 | Would it not be indelicate for them to discuss their future relations, the possibility and responsibilities of parenthood, etc.?" |
| 28458 | You ask, Can not a young man and a young woman be real, true friends? |
| 28458 | You may ask, Are all of these conditions a matter of heredity? |
| 28458 | you say;"God the Infinite under obligations to man, the finite? |
| 23609 | ''And yet your husband loves you?'' 23609 ''Can you talk with him upon this subject?'' |
| 23609 | ''Do you think so?'' 23609 AND YOU, MOTHER, knowing the danger that besets your daughters at this critical period, are you justified in keeping silent? |
| 23609 | How can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit? |
| 23609 | Think you that good seed sown will bring forth bitter fruit? 23609 This is up- hill work,"said Jenny;"So is life,"said I;"shall we Climb it each alone, or, Jenny, Will you come and climb with me?" |
| 23609 | Thunderstorms clear the atmosphere and promote vegetation; then why not Love- spats promote love, as they certainly often do? 23609 WHAT IS IT, THEN, THAT USUALLY CAUSES distress to many women, whether a bride or a long- time wife?" |
| 23609 | ***** Shall Pregnant Women Work? |
| 23609 | ***** Why Bring Into the World Idiots, Fools, Criminals and Lunatics? |
| 23609 | ADMIRED AND BELOVED.--Young lady, would you be admired and beloved? |
| 23609 | Afraid of the girls, are you? |
| 23609 | And why? |
| 23609 | And, think you, that your son and daughter, later in life will make you their confidant as they ought? |
| 23609 | Are jesters and buffoons your choice friends? |
| 23609 | Are not such parents largely to blame? |
| 23609 | Are the magistrates and the police powerless? |
| 23609 | Are there not other hearts on earth just as loving and lovely, and in every way as congenial? |
| 23609 | Are there not"as good fish in the sea as ever were caught?" |
| 23609 | Are they not criminals in a high degree? |
| 23609 | Are you a true, straightforward, manly fellow, with whose healthful and uncorrupted nature it is good for society to come in contact? |
| 23609 | Are you able to make any return for social recognition and social privileges? |
| 23609 | BRAINY ENOUGH.--What kind of women make the best wives? |
| 23609 | Because you would rather be Mrs. Nobody, than make the effort to be Miss Somebody? |
| 23609 | CHARACTER OF ILLEGITIMATES.--Wherein, then, consists this difference? |
| 23609 | CONCLUSION.--Would you, then, secure the love and trust of your wife, and become an object of her ever- growing tenderness and reverence? |
| 23609 | CONFIDENCE AND EXPOSURE.--I hear some of you say, can not some influence be brought to bear upon this plague- spot? |
| 23609 | Can maternity be natural when it is undesigned by the father or undesired by the mother? |
| 23609 | Can not many now unhappy remember them as the beginning of that alienation which embittered your subsequent affectional cup, and spoiled your lives? |
| 23609 | Can you be held guiltless if your daughter ruins body and mind because you were_ too modest_ to tell her the laws of her being? |
| 23609 | Do n''t say where are you stopping? |
| 23609 | Do n''t say who may you be; say who are you? |
| 23609 | Do women in all circles of society, when practicing these terrible crimes realize the real danger? |
| 23609 | Do you blame me because I write so freely? |
| 23609 | Do you know anything? |
| 23609 | Do you love and seek the society of the wise and good? |
| 23609 | Do you seek to be with the profane? |
| 23609 | Do you, can you love me? |
| 23609 | Does not this alone prove to us, conclusively, that there is a Divinity in the background governing, controlling and influencing our lives? |
| 23609 | FATAL CONDITIONS.--What are all lovers''"spats"but disappointment in its very worst form? |
| 23609 | FLIRTING JUST FOR FUN.--Who is the flirt, what is his reputation, motive, or character? |
| 23609 | From what other source do or can they come? |
| 23609 | George F. Hall says:"Why not pay careful attention to man in all his elements of strength, physical, mental, and moral? |
| 23609 | God has ordained that children should thus be brought into the world, do you call the works of God silly? |
| 23609 | Had you rather take the lowest seat among these than the highest seat among others? |
| 23609 | Have they not fouled their own nest, and transmitted to their children predisposition to moral evil? |
| 23609 | Have you a good set of teeth, which you are willing to show whenever the wit of the company gets off a good thing? |
| 23609 | Have you, young man, who are at home whining over the fact that you can not get into society, done anything to give you a claim to social recognition? |
| 23609 | He answers with ardent confidence:"Thy love I do adore, The stars live in the harmony of love, and why should not we, too, love each other?" |
| 23609 | He who maims my person effects that which medicine may remedy; but what herb has sovereignty over the wounds of slander? |
| 23609 | He who plunders my property takes from me that which can be repaired by time; but what period can repair a ruined reputation? |
| 23609 | How can her own brothers and sisters associate with her? |
| 23609 | How can you look an innocent girl in the face when you are degrading your manhood with the vilest practice? |
| 23609 | How can you, my friend, secure for your person the loving care and respect of your wife? |
| 23609 | How the mind speaks through the nerves and muscles,??? |
| 23609 | How the mind speaks through the nerves and muscles,??? |
| 23609 | How the mind speaks through the nerves and muscles,??? |
| 23609 | How to cook for the sick, 375- 379 Human magnetism, effects of,??? |
| 23609 | How to cook for the sick, 375- 379 Human magnetism, effects of,??? |
| 23609 | How to cook for the sick, 375- 379 Human magnetism, effects of,??? |
| 23609 | Human figure, a perfect, 99- 100 Hygienic laws, 406- 408 Ignorance, coarseness, etc., 24 Illustrations,??? |
| 23609 | Human figure, a perfect, 99- 100 Hygienic laws, 406- 408 Ignorance, coarseness, etc., 24 Illustrations,??? |
| 23609 | Human figure, a perfect, 99- 100 Hygienic laws, 406- 408 Ignorance, coarseness, etc., 24 Illustrations,??? |
| 23609 | I wonder if you are as impatient to see me as I am to fly to you? |
| 23609 | IS IT EVER RIGHT TO PREVENT CONCEPTION? |
| 23609 | In other words, as a return for what you wish to have society do for you, what can you do for society? |
| 23609 | In short, do you possess anything of any social value? |
| 23609 | In what other can they? |
| 23609 | Is it not both unwise and self- destructive; and in every way calculated to render your case, present and prospective, still more hopeless? |
| 23609 | Is it that one false step which now constitutes the boundary between virtue and vice? |
| 23609 | Is not this the only proper method, and the one most likely to result happily? |
| 23609 | Is the law and moral right to continue to be trodden under foot? |
| 23609 | Is there no relief for helpless women that are bound by the ties of marriage to men who are nothing but rotten corruption? |
| 23609 | Is this the order of nature? |
| 23609 | Is this your habit? |
| 23609 | Let echo answer, What? |
| 23609 | MOTHERS, DOES GOD THUS PUT the endowment of your darlings into your moulding power? |
| 23609 | May I hope? |
| 23609 | Nature has no secrets, and why should we? |
| 23609 | Now what think you of this"seeing life?" |
| 23609 | Now, if in such conditions men beget their children, who can affect surprise if they develop licentious tendencies? |
| 23609 | Now, what law has been broken, to induce this penalty? |
| 23609 | Of the throng that struggle at the gates of entrance, how many may reach their anticipated goal? |
| 23609 | Oh, Laura, can you love me in return? |
| 23609 | On a sunny Summer morning, Early as the dew was dry, Up the hill I went a berrying; Need I tell you-- tell you why? |
| 23609 | Or is this the way either to retrieve your past loss, or provide for the future? |
| 23609 | Or rather, the discovery of that false step? |
| 23609 | RETRIEVE YOUR PAST LOSS.--Do sun, moon, and stars indeed rise and set in your loved one? |
| 23609 | SOCIETY OF THE VULGAR.--Do you love the society of the vulgar? |
| 23609 | SUFFERING WOMEN.--Who can be astonished at the many unhappy marriages, if he knows how unworthy most men are of their wives? |
| 23609 | Shall other animals rear nearly all their young, and shall man, constitutionally by far the strongest of them all, lose half or more of his? |
| 23609 | TELLING THEIR LOVE.--The generality of the sex is love to be loved: how are they to know the fact that they{ 38} are loved unless they are told? |
| 23609 | THE FIRST LESSONS.--Should you be asked by your four or five- year old,"Mamma, where did you get me?" |
| 23609 | THE PENALTIES FOR LOST VIRTUE.--Can the harlot be welcomed where either children, brothers, sisters, wife, or husband are found? |
| 23609 | THE SECOND LESSON.--The second lesson came with the question,"But_ where_ is the nest?" |
| 23609 | TOO OFTEN THE HUSBAND thinks only of his personal gratification; he insists upon what he calls his rights(? |
| 23609 | The corset more than any other one thing is responsible for woman''s being the victim of disease and doctors...."What is the effect upon the child? |
| 23609 | The principle is the same; and if the principle is right, why not multiply methods? |
| 23609 | The question is always asked,"Can Conception be prevented at all times?" |
| 23609 | Then by what? |
| 23609 | To whom can you introduce her? |
| 23609 | WHAT ARE YOU GOOD FOR?--Are you a good beau, and are you willing to make yourself useful in waiting on the{ 67} ladies on all occasions? |
| 23609 | What can you say concerning her? |
| 23609 | What is the result? |
| 23609 | What kind of coin do you propose to pay in the discharge of the obligation which comes upon you with social recognition? |
| 23609 | What man is there who can not trace the origin of many of the best maxims of his life to the lips of her who gave him birth? |
| 23609 | What plummet can sound the depths of a woman''s fall who has become a harlot? |
| 23609 | What power shall blanch the sullied show of character? |
| 23609 | What rendered him thus perfect? |
| 23609 | What{ 99} rounded off his natural asperities, and moulded up his virtues? |
| 23609 | When will mothers awake from their lethargy? |
| 23609 | While now--(will God forgive me?) |
| 23609 | Who can redeem it lost? |
| 23609 | Who can tell how much this state of things is due to the enervation of maternal life forces by the one instrument of torture? |
| 23609 | Who shall repair it injured? |
| 23609 | Who will dare question that this mother''s effort to destroy him while in embryo was the main cause in bringing him to the level of the brutes? |
| 23609 | Who will not confess the influence of a mother in forming the heart of a child? |
| 23609 | Who{ 202} shall quarrel with the Divinely implanted instinct, or declare it to be vulgar or unmentionable? |
| 23609 | Why have I found grace in{ 197} thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?" |
| 23609 | Why marry at all if not to found a family that shall live to bless and make glad the earth after father and mother are gone? |
| 23609 | Why may not lying be as legitimately cured by blisters made with hot coals as by black and blue spots made with a ruler or whip? |
| 23609 | Why should we do less? |
| 23609 | Will she ask mamma whether it is ever proper to sit in her lover''s lap? |
| 23609 | Will the legislature or congress do nothing? |
| 23609 | Will you in matters thus momentous, head- long rush"Where angels dare not tread?" |
| 23609 | Will you kindly favor me{ 40} with a testimonial as to my character, ability and conduct while at Boston Normal School? |
| 23609 | Will you love her selfish, shirking, calculating nature after twenty years of close companionship? |
| 23609 | Will you trifle with the dearest interests of your children? |
| 23609 | Wilt thou, then, Spurn at His edict, and fulfill a man''s? |
| 23609 | With assumed harshness the lady asks her lover:"Who are you, and what do you want?" |
| 23609 | With what inherent repulsion do you look back upon them? |
| 23609 | Would you be an ornament to your sex, and a blessing to your race? |
| 23609 | and can you not catch them? |
| 23609 | because she is pitiful to the sinful, tender to the sorrowful, capable, self- reliant, modest, true- hearted? |
| 23609 | because you feel you can not live without him? |
| 23609 | because you have a great empty place in your head and heart that nothing but a man can fill? |
| 23609 | in brief, because she is the embodiment of all womanly virtues? |
| 23609 | say where are you staying? |
| 23609 | which think you is the most sensible and fraught with the least danger to your darling boy or girl? |
| 23609 | { 458}[ Illustration: THE TWO PATHS: WHAT WILL THE BOY BECOME?] |
| 16047 | But did n''t you say anything? |
| 16047 | But how can I? |
| 16047 | But what of the cricket- match that you wanted so to see? |
| 16047 | Can men keep their health and strength as celibates till such time as they have the means to marry? |
| 16047 | Oh, my son,exclaimed his mother in great distress,"how are we to help you young fellows? |
| 16047 | She gave him encouragement; what else could she expect? 16047 Then if doctors were to warn you more plainly than they do?" |
| 16047 | Then what can we do, what can we do? |
| 16047 | We talk of our greatness,says Mr. Froude;"do we really know in what a nation''s greatness consists? |
| 16047 | Who is the happy husband? 16047 [ 26] Again, could we not give our boys a little more teaching about the true nature and sacredness of fatherhood? |
| 16047 | [ 38] What was it that made the Egyptian civilization one of the longest- lived of ancient civilizations? 16047 ''Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?'' 16047 And from this secret place of thunder is not God now calling His chosen ones to come forward and be fellow- workers with Him? 16047 And have we even secured the happiness of our own daughters by this high standard of living which prevents so many of them from marrying at all? 16047 And now, when at the end of the ages He once again calls us women to stand heart to heart with Him in a great redemptive purpose, shall we hang back? 16047 And to what further admirable results have we attained by this high standard of comfort and luxury? 16047 Art thou also like unto us? 16047 But have we not suffered our girls to drift into the opposite extreme? 16047 But how is this to be done? 16047 But is it so? 16047 But is not this wholly to misunderstand our Lord''s teaching? 16047 But perhaps some pessimistic mother will exclaim,What is the use of making these old- fashioned appeals to our modern girls? |
| 16047 | But the Christ meets us with the words,"Said I not unto thee that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?" |
| 16047 | But, further, to strengthen us in this splendid quality, have we sufficiently recognized the new moral forces that are coming into the world? |
| 16047 | CHAPTER II"WHY SHOULD I INTERFERE?" |
| 16047 | CHAPTER III FIRST PRINCIPLES"But what can we do?" |
| 16047 | CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I.--INTRODUCTORY 1 II.--"WHY SHOULD I INTERFERE?" |
| 16047 | Can men keep their health and strength as celibates? |
| 16047 | Could not our sweet English and American girls be to their brothers what that young French girl was to hers? |
| 16047 | Do we not feel at once that we stand here at the very centre of the mighty forces that are moulding men to nobler shape and higher use? |
| 16047 | Do we really think that boys are born less pure than girls? |
| 16047 | Do you think if the clergy were more faithful, they could help you more than they do?" |
| 16047 | Do you think it cost the women of that day nothing to bear all this on their tender hearts? |
| 16047 | From some impure maidservant who has stolen into the household and the nursery? |
| 16047 | From some ribald groom in the stables? |
| 16047 | From whom should they first learn it? |
| 16047 | Has God built up His everlasting marble of broken shells, and will He not build up his temple of the future out of these broken efforts of ours? |
| 16047 | Has it not been created in a great measure by a wrong method? |
| 16047 | Have we not made up our mind that the beast and not the Christ is our master here; and does not every beast spring at once on a fallen prey? |
| 16047 | How could I deny this bitter accusation in the face of facts? |
| 16047 | How does God feed the birds of the air? |
| 16047 | How shall we flatten it? |
| 16047 | I ask, Would such a state of things be possible in these days? |
| 16047 | I had heard the words too often from the lips of outcast girls in answer to my question,"Does your mother know where you are?" |
| 16047 | I know that straight from your heart again comes the cry,"What can I do?" |
| 16047 | III Again I seem almost to hear the cry of your heart,"I know I ought to speak to my boy, but how am I to do it?" |
| 16047 | IS IT NATURAL? |
| 16047 | If it will now permit a man to be buried simply when he is dead, why can not it allow him to exist simply whilst he is living?" |
| 16047 | If marriage be not a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual life and grace, I ask what is? |
| 16047 | If the boy has got out of hand, I ask, Whose fault is that? |
| 16047 | Is humanity more readily straightened than an iron plate? |
| 16047 | Is it fair, is it honorable, is it even manly? |
| 16047 | Is it not by incessant and untiring effort on their part? |
| 16047 | Is not Robert Louis Stevenson right when he says that"the ideal of the stalled ox is the one ideal that will never satisfy either man or woman"? |
| 16047 | Is not my husband right when he says that this is a subject we women can know nothing about, and that here we must bow to the judgment of men?" |
| 16047 | Is the standard of the moral law possible to men who have to maintain a high level of physical efficiency in the sharp competition of modern life? |
| 16047 | May not He"Whose large plan ripens slowly to a whole"be working out a progressive ideal such as we trace in the great spiritual records of our race? |
| 16047 | Once again, was it not in his age- long conflict with the great world evil of slavery that man worked out the true nature of a moral personality? |
| 16047 | Should it be with every accompaniment of coarseness, of levity, of obscenity? |
| 16047 | Sometimes I have asked in anguish of spirit:"Will women give it?" |
| 16047 | That which has been sown in such deep dishonor, will it not be raised in some glory that excelleth? |
| 16047 | Truly we might apostrophize Freedom in the words of the Hebrew prophet:"Who is this that cometh with her garments dyed in blood?" |
| 16047 | WHO HOLDS THE ROPE? |
| 16047 | What are we women going to do in the face of such vast issues for good or evil? |
| 16047 | What can be the fun of winning other people''s money?" |
| 16047 | What can one expect but that, having sown moral carelessness, we shall reap corruption? |
| 16047 | What can the boy think? |
| 16047 | What can you say to them, except to tell them to take care of themselves and keep the men at arm''s length?" |
| 16047 | What mean these mysteries of love and birth? |
| 16047 | What was it but their faithfulness to the Highest that they had known which made them endure the Cross, despising the shame? |
| 16047 | What was it that enabled our barbaric ancestors, the Teutons, to overthrow the whole power of civilized Rome? |
| 16047 | Where is their chivalry? |
| 16047 | Where is their common humanity? |
| 16047 | Which of us have not had such moments of despondency in the face of a great task? |
| 16047 | Who else can implant in her son that habitual reverence for womanhood which to a man is"as fountains of sweet water in the bitter sea"of life? |
| 16047 | Who so well as a mother can teach the sacredness of the body as the temple of the Eternal? |
| 16047 | Who so well as a mother, as he passes into dawning manhood, can plead faithfulness to the future wife before marriage as well as after? |
| 16047 | Why has Nature made these passions so strong that she seems wholly regardless of all considerations of morality? |
| 16047 | Why is there this nameless moral difficulty at the very heart of our life which our whole soul revolts from contemplating? |
| 16047 | Why may I not leave it all to the boy''s father? |
| 16047 | Why should I interfere?" |
| 16047 | Why should it be my duty to face a question which is very distasteful to me, and which I feel I had much better let alone?" |
| 16047 | Why should we accept life''s necessary drudgery for our boys and refuse it for our girls? |
| 16047 | Why then should we despair? |
| 16047 | Why, I ask, should men when they get together be one whit coarser than women? |
| 16047 | Would not a little sound, sensible teaching be of great good here? |
| 16047 | Would we have the Anglo- Saxon race enter on this downward grade? |
| 16047 | and is it fair to the child that your fault should be remedied by sending him away from all that is best and most purifying in child life? |
| 16047 | and swamp the women and children? |
| 16047 | can sadder words knell in a woman''s ears than these? |
| 16047 | she replied,"I know that but too well; but what makes you say so?" |
| 16047 | so largely minister to the existence of an outcast class of women? |
| 16047 | they must ever fade in a world like this-- but to aim at Virtue, with her victor''s crown of gold, tried in the fire? |
| 13444 | ''And yet your husband loves you?'' 13444 ''Can you talk with him upon this subject?'' |
| 13444 | ''Do you think so?'' 13444 AND YOU, MOTHER, knowing the danger that besets your daughters at this critical period, are you justified in keeping silent? |
| 13444 | How can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit? |
| 13444 | Think you that good seed sown will bring forth bitter fruit? 13444 This is up- hill work,"said Jenny;"So is life,"said I;"shall we Climb it each alone, or, Jenny, Will you come and climb with me?" |
| 13444 | Thunderstorms clear the atmosphere and promote vegetation; then why not Love- spats promote love, as they certainly often do? |
| 13444 | WHAT IS IT, THEN, THAT USUALLY CAUSES distress to many women, whether a bride or a long- time wife? |
| 13444 | ***** SHALL PREGNANT WOMEN WORK? |
| 13444 | ***** WHERE DID THE BABY COME FROM? |
| 13444 | A COMMON QUESTION.--The question is often asked,"Can Conception be prevented at all times?" |
| 13444 | ADMIRED AND BELOVED.--Young lady, would you be admired and beloved? |
| 13444 | Afraid of the girls, are you? |
| 13444 | And what place is as secure as that chosen, where they can be reached only with the utmost difficulty, and than only as the peril of even life itself? |
| 13444 | And why? |
| 13444 | And, think you, that your son and daughter, later in life will make you their confidant as they ought? |
| 13444 | Are jesters and buffoons your choice friends? |
| 13444 | Are not such parents largely to blame? |
| 13444 | Are the magistrates and the police powerless? |
| 13444 | Are there not"as good fish in the sea as ever were caught?" |
| 13444 | Are they not criminals in a high degree? |
| 13444 | Are you a true, straightforward, manly fellow, with whose healthful and uncorrupted nature it is good for society to come in contact? |
| 13444 | Are you able to make any return for social recognition and social privileges? |
| 13444 | BRAINY ENOUGH.--What kind of women make the best wives? |
| 13444 | Because you would rather be Mrs. Nobody, than make the effort to be Miss Somebody? |
| 13444 | But how did you come to us, you dear? |
| 13444 | CHARACTER OF ILLEGITIMATES.--Wherein, then, consists this difference? |
| 13444 | CONCLUSION.--Would you, then, secure the love and trust of your wife, and become an object of her ever- growing tenderness and reverence? |
| 13444 | CONFIDENCE AND EXPOSURE.--I hear some of you say, can not some influence be brought to bear upon this plague- spot? |
| 13444 | Can maternity be natural when it is undesigned by the father or undesired by the mother? |
| 13444 | Can not many now unhappy remember them as the beginning of that alienation which embittered your subsequent affectional cup, spoiled your lives? |
| 13444 | Can you be held guiltless if your daughter ruins body and mind because you were too modest to tell her the laws of her being? |
| 13444 | Do n''t say where are you stopping? |
| 13444 | Do n''t say who may you be; say who are you? |
| 13444 | Do women in all circles of society, when practicing these terrible crimes realize the real danger? |
| 13444 | Do you blame me because I write so freely? |
| 13444 | Do you know anything? |
| 13444 | Do you love and seek the society of the wise and good? |
| 13444 | Do you seek to be with the profane? |
| 13444 | Do you, can you love me? |
| 13444 | Does not this alone prove to us, conclusively, that there is a Divinity in the background governing, controlling and influencing our lives? |
| 13444 | FATAL CONDITIONS.--What are all lovers''"spats"but disappointment in its very worst form? |
| 13444 | FLIRTING JUST FOR FUN.--Who is the flirt, what is his reputation, motive, or character? |
| 13444 | FOOLISH DREAD OF CHILDREN.--What is more deplorable and pitiable than an old couple childless? |
| 13444 | Feet whence did you come, you darling things? |
| 13444 | From what other source do or can they come? |
| 13444 | George F. Hall says:"why not pay careful attention to man in all his elements of strength, physical, mental, and moral? |
| 13444 | God has ordained that children should thus be brought into the world, do you call the works of God silly? |
| 13444 | Had you rather take the lowest seat among these than the highest seat among others? |
| 13444 | Have they not fouled their own nest, and transmitted to their children predisposition to moral evil? |
| 13444 | Have you a good set of teeth, which you are willing to show whenever the wit of the company gets off a good thing? |
| 13444 | Have you, young man, who are at home whining over the fact that you can not get into society, done anything to give you a claim to social recognition? |
| 13444 | He who maims my person effects that which medicine may remedy; but what herb has sovereignty over the wounds of slander? |
| 13444 | He who plunders my property takes from me that which can be repaired by time; but what period can repair a ruined reputation? |
| 13444 | How can her own brothers and sisters associate with her? |
| 13444 | How can you look an innocent girl in the face when you are degrading your manhood with the vilest practice? |
| 13444 | How can you, my friend, secure for your person the loving care and respect of your wife? |
| 13444 | How did they all come just to be you? |
| 13444 | I wonder if you are as impatient to see me as I am to fly to you? |
| 13444 | In other words, as a return for what you wish to have society do for you, what can you do for society? |
| 13444 | In short, do you possess anything of any social value? |
| 13444 | In what other can they? |
| 13444 | Indeed, as ontaigne[ Transcriber''s note: Montaigne?] |
| 13444 | Is it not both unwise and self- destructive; and in every way calculated to render your case, present and prospective, still more hopeless? |
| 13444 | Is it that one false step which now constitutes the boundary between virtue and vice? |
| 13444 | Is not this the only proper method, and the one most likely to result happily? |
| 13444 | Is the law and moral right to continue to be trodden under foot? |
| 13444 | Is there no relief for helpless women that are bound by the ties of marriage to men who are nothing but rotten corruption? |
| 13444 | Is this your habit? |
| 13444 | Let echo answer, What? |
| 13444 | MOTHERS, DOES GOD THUS PUT the endowment of your darlings into your moulding power? |
| 13444 | May I hope? |
| 13444 | Nature has no secrets, and why should we? |
| 13444 | Now what think you of this"seeing life?" |
| 13444 | Now, if in such conditions men beget their children, who can affect surprise if they develop licentious tendencies? |
| 13444 | Now, what law has been broken, to induce this penalty? |
| 13444 | Of the throng that struggle at the gates of entrance, how many may reach their anticipated goal? |
| 13444 | Oh, Laura, can you love me in return? |
| 13444 | On a sunny Summer morning, Early as the dew was dry, Up the hill I went a berrying; Need I tell you-- tell you why? |
| 13444 | Or is this the way either to retrieve your past loss, or provide for the future? |
| 13444 | Or rather, the discovery of that false step? |
| 13444 | RETRIEVE YOUR PAST LOSS.--Do sun, moon, and stars indeed rise and set in your loved one? |
| 13444 | SOCIETY OF THE VULGAR.--Do you love the society of the vulgar? |
| 13444 | SUFFERING WOMEN.--Who can be astonished at the many unhappy marriages, if he knows how unworthy most men are of their wives? |
| 13444 | Shall other animals rear nearly all their young, and shall man, constitutionally by far the strongest of them all, lose half or more of his? |
| 13444 | TELLING THEIR LOVE.--The generality of the sex is, love to be loved; how are they to know the fact that they are loved unless they are told? |
| 13444 | THE FIRST LESSONS.--Should you be asked by your four or five- year old,"Mamma, where did you get me?" |
| 13444 | THE PENALTIES FOR LOST VIRTUE.--Can the harlot be welcomed where either children, brothers, sisters, wife, or husband are found? |
| 13444 | THE SECOND LESSON.--The second lesson came with the question,"But_ where_ is the nest?" |
| 13444 | TOO OFTEN THE HUSBAND thinks only of his personal gratification; he insists upon what he calls his rights(? |
| 13444 | The corset more than any other one thing is responsible for woman''s being the victim of disease and doctors...."What is the effect upon the child? |
| 13444 | The principle is the same; and if the principle is right, why not multiply methods? |
| 13444 | The stars live in the harmony of love, and why should not we, too, love each other?" |
| 13444 | Then by what? |
| 13444 | To whom can you introduce her? |
| 13444 | WHAT ARE YOU GOOD FOR?--Are you a good beau, and are you willing to make yourself useful in waiting on the ladies on all occasions? |
| 13444 | WHY NOT MATRIMONY?] |
| 13444 | What can you say concerning her? |
| 13444 | What is the result? |
| 13444 | What kind of coin do you propose to pay in the discharge of the obligation which comes upon you with social recognition? |
| 13444 | What makes your cheek like a warm, white rose? |
| 13444 | What makes your forehead so smooth and high? |
| 13444 | What man is there who can not trace the origin of many of the best maxims of his life to the lips of her who gave him birth? |
| 13444 | What plummet can sound the depths of a woman''s fall who has become a harlot? |
| 13444 | What power shall blanch the sullied show of character? |
| 13444 | What rendered him thus perfect? |
| 13444 | What rounded off his natural asperities, and moulded up his virtues? |
| 13444 | What will be his fate in life?] |
| 13444 | When will mothers awake from their lethargy? |
| 13444 | Whence that three- cornered smile of bliss? |
| 13444 | Where did you come from, baby dear? |
| 13444 | Where did you get that little tear? |
| 13444 | Where did you get the eyes so blue? |
| 13444 | Where did you get this pretty ear? |
| 13444 | Where did you get those arms and hands? |
| 13444 | While now--(will God forgive me?) |
| 13444 | Who can redeem it lost? |
| 13444 | Who can tell how much this state of things is due to the enervation of maternal life forces by the one instrument of torture? |
| 13444 | Who shall quarrel with the Divinely implanted instinct, or declare it to be vulgar or unmentionable? |
| 13444 | Who shall repair it injured? |
| 13444 | Who will dare question that this mother''s effort to destroy him while in embryo was the main cause in bringing him to the level of the brutes? |
| 13444 | Who will not confess the influence of a mother in forming the heart of a child? |
| 13444 | Why Bring Into the World Idiots, Fools, Criminals and Lunatics? |
| 13444 | Why have I found grace in thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?" |
| 13444 | Why marry at all if not to found a family that shall live to bless and make glad the earth after father and mother are gone? |
| 13444 | Why may not lying be as legitimately cured by blisters made with hot coals as by black and blue spots made with a ruler or whip? |
| 13444 | Why should we do less? |
| 13444 | Will she ask mamma whether it is ever proper to sit in her lover''s lap? |
| 13444 | Will the legislature or congress do nothing? |
| 13444 | Will you kindly favor me with a testimonial as to my character, ability and conduct while at Boston Normal School? |
| 13444 | Will you love her selfish, shirking, calculating nature after twenty years of close companionship? |
| 13444 | Will you trifle with the dearest interests of your children? |
| 13444 | Wilt thou, then, Spurn at His edict, and fulfill a man''s? |
| 13444 | With assumed harshness the lady asks her lover: Who are you, and what do you want? |
| 13444 | With what inherent repulsion do you look back upon them? |
| 13444 | Would you be an ornament to your sex, and a blessing to your race? |
| 13444 | [ Illustration: THE TWO PATHS-- WHAT WILL THE GIRL BECOME? |
| 13444 | [ Illustration: THE TWO PATHS-- What Will The Boy Become? |
| 13444 | and can you not catch them? |
| 13444 | because his earnest manly consecrated life is a mighty power on God''s side? |
| 13444 | because she is pitiful to the sinful, tender to the sorrowful, capable, self- reliant, modest, true- hearted? |
| 13444 | because you feel you can not live without him? |
| 13444 | because you have a great empty place in your head and heart that nothing but a man can fill? |
| 13444 | in brief, because she is the embodiment of all womanly virtues? |
| 13444 | is this the order of nature? |
| 13444 | say where are you staying? |
| 13444 | which think you is the most sensible and fraught with the least danger to your darling boy or girl? |
| 11248 | Can nature, let me ask, regard use as an end, and dispose uses into orders and forms? 11248 Can you finish it within the year?" |
| 11248 | In what then,said they to the angel,"does heavenly joy consist?" |
| 11248 | Is not heaven,they argued,"before our eyes in a particular place above us? |
| 11248 | We can not approach:and he said,"Why not?" |
| 11248 | What is the origin of beauty but love, which, when it flows into the eyes of youths, and sets them on becomes beauty? 11248 Who are you? |
| 11248 | _ Philip said, Shew us the FATHER: Jesus said unto him, He that seeth me, seeth the FATHER; how sayest them then, Shew us the FATHER_? |
| 11248 | _ Where is the hill of thy MOTHER''S divorcement, whom I have put away_? |
| 11248 | 43; for you make conjugial love and adulterous love the same thing; and do these two cohere any more than iron and clay? |
| 11248 | 6- 11? |
| 11248 | After attending some time to this sight, we approached the table, and asked him what he was then writing? |
| 11248 | After this I gave the conversation a serious turn, and asked them, whether they had ever thought that adultery is sin? |
| 11248 | After this, as I looked around, I saw their tabernacle as it were overlaid with gold; and I asked,"Whence is this?" |
| 11248 | Afterwards I said,"How can you subsist upon this earth, when you are void of any love truly conjugial, and also when you worship idols?" |
| 11248 | Afterwards those who were seated on the grassy couches, asked the angels"Whence are the innumerable and ineffable delights of conjugial love?" |
| 11248 | Again I asked,"What other miracles shall I do?" |
| 11248 | Again I enquired,"How can he, who is emperor of emperors, so submit himself, and how can you receive adoration?" |
| 11248 | Again they were asked,"What is the quality of those delights?" |
| 11248 | Again we asked,"What are your religious notions respecting whoredoms?" |
| 11248 | Also remove the feathers and quills, and look at its skin; is it not white? |
| 11248 | Also, how can a man live eternally, unless he be conjoined to an eternal God? |
| 11248 | And I asked,"Are not the things above- mentioned miracles?" |
| 11248 | And are not our bodily senses the only evidences of truth? |
| 11248 | And are not those things entirely distinct from each other? |
| 11248 | And as by this time we were ready to depart, I asked,"Did any of you, during your abode in the natural world, live with more than one wife?" |
| 11248 | And can a bony skeleton that has been parched in the sun, or mouldered into dust, be introduced into a new body? |
| 11248 | And can nature make angels of men, and heaven of angels? |
| 11248 | And can such super- eminent principle derive its existence from any other source than from God himself, the Creator and Preserver of the universe? |
| 11248 | And how can there be conjunction with God by love and wisdom, unless a man have some reciprocity of conjunction? |
| 11248 | And how could the cadaverous and putrid materials be collected, and reunited to the souls? |
| 11248 | And if he never learnt to speak, would he ever be able to express his thoughts? |
| 11248 | And instantly upon the heads of some of the audience there appeared wreaths of flowers; and on their asking,"Why is this?" |
| 11248 | And it was asked them,"Are those things delightful to you?" |
| 11248 | And must not all the intercourse of youths and virgins, in such case, consist of dry insipid joys? |
| 11248 | And on being asked,"What further account can you give?" |
| 11248 | And one of the ten asked,"How for the sake of relatives?" |
| 11248 | And presently, when he was turned to me, I asked him what he heard? |
| 11248 | And they added,"What do you wish us to tell you on the subject?" |
| 11248 | And they looked at each other, and said,"Which of you has seen him?" |
| 11248 | And they replied with a hissing,"What do you mean by one wife only? |
| 11248 | And they replied,"What do you mean by holiness? |
| 11248 | And we answered,"Are they not also works of the spirit? |
| 11248 | And we asked thirdly,"Does your religion teach that marriages are holy and heavenly, and that adulteries are profane and infernal?" |
| 11248 | And what harm can come to a man? |
| 11248 | And what have actions to do with religion? |
| 11248 | And what is a woman? |
| 11248 | And when some of the women said that they were their wives, they replied,"What is a wife? |
| 11248 | And who can discover, let him make what inquiry he pleases, any other cause of this than that he has devoted his soul and heart to one woman? |
| 11248 | And who does not know that that concupiscence is not imputed, while from natural he is becoming spiritual? |
| 11248 | Are not adulteries as prolific as marriages? |
| 11248 | Are not all things therein organically formed to produce the things which the love wills and the understanding thinks? |
| 11248 | Are not illegitimate children as alert and qualified for the discharge of offices and employments as the legitimate? |
| 11248 | Are not marriages works of the flesh and of the night?" |
| 11248 | Are not the angels of heaven principled therein? |
| 11248 | Are not the atmospheres and all things which exist on the earth, as surfaces, and the sun their centre? |
| 11248 | Are not the organs of the body from nature, and love and thought from life? |
| 11248 | Are not there instances of adulterous presbyters and monks? |
| 11248 | Are not these the delights of true conjugial love in their fulness?" |
| 11248 | Are not they adulterous?" |
| 11248 | Are not your heads in nature, and is there any influx into the thoughts of your heads but from nature? |
| 11248 | Are there not instances of men who are so wild and foolish, that they are no more like men than those who have been found in forests? |
| 11248 | Are they not in the meantime mere vaporous and unsubstantial souls residing, in some place of confinement(_ in quodam pu seu ubi_)?" |
| 11248 | Are they not mere creatures of the brain?" |
| 11248 | As he said this, I saw a great light upon the hill in the middle of the tabernacles; and I inquired,"Whence is that light?" |
| 11248 | As wisdom is a principle of life, and thence of reason, as was said above, it may be asked, What is wisdom as a principle of life? |
| 11248 | At length I asked him,"How long do you two hundred thus glory among yourselves?" |
| 11248 | At length I said,"Although you do not fear divine laws, do you not fear civil laws?" |
| 11248 | At that instant two angelic spirits happening to meet them, accosted them, saying,"Whence are you?" |
| 11248 | At this also they murmured, saying,"What have you to do here with whoredoms? |
| 11248 | At this the crowd murmured, and said,"What have you to do here with marriages? |
| 11248 | At this the novitiate laughed, saying,"What are heaven and hell? |
| 11248 | At this they smiled and said,"What is a wise one or a wisdom without a woman, or without love, a wife being the love of a wise man''s wisdom?" |
| 11248 | At this we smiled and said,"Are they not contraries? |
| 11248 | Being questioned whether they saw any sin in it? |
| 11248 | But I replied,"I know that you are a wise one; and what has a wise one or a wisdom to do with a woman?" |
| 11248 | But I said,"Do not you know that to live well is charity, and that to believe well is faith? |
| 11248 | But at this several who were present laughed, saying,"What is spiritual good?" |
| 11248 | But being much terrified, they did not answer; and I said,"Do you see the dreadful sight? |
| 11248 | But he then asked,"Whence comes the fire of the sun of the world, or of nature?" |
| 11248 | But instantly, as before, his internal sight was opened, the external being closed, and he was asked what he then saw? |
| 11248 | But the legate replied,"Does not the raven appear black to the sight?" |
| 11248 | But the men said,"Whence has a man honor from his wife but by her magnifying his intelligence?" |
| 11248 | But they said,"How can there be any love, which is not from creation? |
| 11248 | But what are the delights of the bodily senses without those of the soul? |
| 11248 | But who does not know that good and truth are two distinct principles, like love and wisdom? |
| 11248 | Can any human being know and decide who is in heart an adulterer, and who a conjugial partner? |
| 11248 | Can light be one with the eye, or sound with the ear? |
| 11248 | Can love be forced? |
| 11248 | Can the love of the sex, when it enters by the eyes into the thoughts, stop at the face of a woman? |
| 11248 | Can these possibly be one in any other sense than as principal and instrumental are one? |
| 11248 | Consequently how can a man be a man without such a likeness of God in him?" |
| 11248 | Consequently what were they all before the sun, or how could they subsist? |
| 11248 | Do not adulteries take place with devils in hell, and marriages with angels in heaven? |
| 11248 | Do you not know, that the soul of a man is in his seed?" |
| 11248 | Does it not descend instantly into the breast, and beyond it? |
| 11248 | Does not each derive life from heat, and understanding from light, by the operation of nature?" |
| 11248 | Does not he who perpetually loves a married partner, love her with the whole mind and with the whole body? |
| 11248 | Does not that which is posterior subsist from what is prior, as it exists from what is prior? |
| 11248 | Does this love, as to its ultimate effect with a wife, differ at all from love as to its effect with a harlot? |
| 11248 | For is not the nature of his life determined by the nature of the instruction he receives? |
| 11248 | Has not every one the strength of this love either hereditarily, or from bodily health, or from temperance of life, or from warmth of climate? |
| 11248 | Have you forgotten the Lord''s words, that whosoever would be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven must be the least of all, and the servant of all? |
| 11248 | Have you known any thing heretofore about heaven and hell, or the light and heat of this world? |
| 11248 | Have you known anything about the sun of this world from which our light and heat proceed? |
| 11248 | Have you known anything till now concerning a life after death? |
| 11248 | Have you never heard that the understanding is without any sense or discernment in mysteries, which constitute the whole of religion? |
| 11248 | Have you not till now denied such a life, and degraded yourselves to the beasts? |
| 11248 | He afterwards asked how I proved the SECOND,"that a saving faith is to believe on him?" |
| 11248 | He departed, and came to them, and told them the reason of his coming, and requested that they would teach him what delight is? |
| 11248 | He inquired,"What?" |
| 11248 | He looked at me; upon which I said,"Why do you look at me?" |
| 11248 | He said,"I heard,''Do you know anything concerning heaven, salvation, and happiness in heaven?''" |
| 11248 | He then took his leave of them, and inquired where he might find the wise? |
| 11248 | Hereupon I asked,"What do the circles about the head represent?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon his companions smiled and said,"You conjecture right: who can behold such beauties near and not feel some excitement?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon some of the bystanders asked,"What is the chaste love of the sex?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon the ancient sages asked,"What do the people on the earth think of such information?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon the men rejoined,"Are you not females as before?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon the men were silent; nevertheless they murmured,"What is conjugial love?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon the novitiates observed,"If there be a love of the sex devoid of all allurement, what in such cases is the love of the sex?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon the two novitiates asked,"Are there in heaven human forms altogether similar to those in the natural world?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon they all asked,"What is the delight of the soul, and whence is it derived?" |
| 11248 | Hereupon they turned themselves away and muttered,"What harm can this do her?" |
| 11248 | How can a love that is not created be implanted in any one?'' |
| 11248 | How can any one know whether he performs uses from self- love, or from the love of uses? |
| 11248 | How can posterior things produce prior, or exterior things produce interior, or grosser things produce purer? |
| 11248 | How can the chaste love of the sex be the sweetest of all loves, when chastity deprives it of its sweetness? |
| 11248 | How can there be a love which divides and separates? |
| 11248 | How can you utter a question which so wounds our ears? |
| 11248 | How then can they excite the idea of one God?" |
| 11248 | I again asked,"What miracles then do you mean?" |
| 11248 | I also asked,"Why are there two marriage- chambers?" |
| 11248 | I also went thither in spirit, and asked the keeper who was standing at the entrance, whether I also might enter? |
| 11248 | I approached them, and, greeting them with a salutation of peace, respectfully asked them,"For what purpose are you here below?" |
| 11248 | I asked also, whether those wives afterwards return to their husbands and live with them? |
| 11248 | I asked further,"How many are there in your society?" |
| 11248 | I asked him again,"Do you know what befalls those who sink under ground?" |
| 11248 | I asked him,"What have you preached?" |
| 11248 | I asked the wives,"Why are you unwilling, and consequently can not say so?" |
| 11248 | I asked therefore what they were conversing about? |
| 11248 | I asked, why they do not hire for themselves unmarried women? |
| 11248 | I asked,"Whence have you this wisdom?" |
| 11248 | I heard a sweet sound; and I asked the angel, what was the subject of their glorification in that quarter respecting the Lord? |
| 11248 | I inquired the reason of this? |
| 11248 | I inquired,"How is a feminine principle produced from a male soul?" |
| 11248 | I inquired,"Where are the priests? |
| 11248 | I inquired,"Why do you say_ one_ arcanum; when I came here to learn several?" |
| 11248 | I next asked him,"How could you so speak, when you are yourself a fraudulent dealer, an adulterer, and a devil?" |
| 11248 | I replied,"I intend to do so: what harm can come from it?" |
| 11248 | I replied,"Why should I not? |
| 11248 | I replied,''Is not this heaven? |
| 11248 | I said further, that a revelation has been made at this day by the Lord concerning the life of man after death? |
| 11248 | I said,"Are they beasts then?" |
| 11248 | I said,"I demonstrate it thus: Is not God one and individual? |
| 11248 | I said,"What do you mean by following the light?" |
| 11248 | I take upon me to say, their reply will be,''What do you mean? |
| 11248 | I then asked him again,"Are not your idols of different forms? |
| 11248 | I then asked the angels,"Whence have devils such rationality?" |
| 11248 | I then asked the other,"What do you say to this?" |
| 11248 | I then asked the wives, Whether the white dove in the window afterwards appeared? |
| 11248 | I then asked them whether marriage was distinguishable? |
| 11248 | I then asked them,"What do you see?" |
| 11248 | I then asked,"Do you know anything more respecting the wisdom of your husbands which gives you delight?" |
| 11248 | I then asked,"If such a union exists, is it possible for you to look at any other woman than your own?" |
| 11248 | I then asked,"Since conjugial love dwells there, where then does conjugial cold dwell?" |
| 11248 | I then asked,"What is within in that sanctuary, from which so great a light proceeds?" |
| 11248 | I then asked,"What must be the nature of that religion by which a man is saved?" |
| 11248 | I then asked,"Whence arises that which you call conjugial cold?" |
| 11248 | I then asked,"Why did the little boy call you Maidens of the fountain?" |
| 11248 | I then said to him,"Do you not see that you are insane from the phantasy of super- eminence?" |
| 11248 | I then said to him,"How can you be so insane? |
| 11248 | I then said,"Since you were cast down, how can you rise again out of hell?" |
| 11248 | If God be one and individual, is not he one person? |
| 11248 | If any man had the eyes of an owl, which would he call light and which darkness? |
| 11248 | If chastity be predicated of the love of the sex, is not this destroying the very thing of which it is predicated? |
| 11248 | If he be one person, is not the trinity in that person? |
| 11248 | If it be not reciprocal, does it not rebound and become nothing?" |
| 11248 | If our husbands possess any portion of it, still we do not; whence then come its delights to us? |
| 11248 | If such be a man''s lot after death, would it not be better to be born an ass than a man? |
| 11248 | If you should ask the females in heaven,''What is love extra- conjugial?'' |
| 11248 | If you should then ask them,''What is love truly conjugial?'' |
| 11248 | In like manner, what are love and wisdom without their use? |
| 11248 | In the meantime I asked the husbands,"Have you a like sense of conjugial love?" |
| 11248 | Is he not born in a state of greater ignorance than the beasts? |
| 11248 | Is it a vapor, or some wind floating in the atmosphere, or some thing hidden in the bowels of the earth? |
| 11248 | Is it any thing or nothing? |
| 11248 | Is it anything? |
| 11248 | Is it not a contradiction in terms to talk of such a love? |
| 11248 | Is it not also contrary to reason to believe, that the soul can be re- clothed with its body? |
| 11248 | Is it not heaven where any one is free; and is not he free who is allowed to love as many as he pleases? |
| 11248 | Is it not its beginning, its support, and its fulfilment? |
| 11248 | Is it not joy and gladness? |
| 11248 | Is it possible that nature from any principle of love, by any principle of wisdom, should provide such things? |
| 11248 | Is not conjugial love a chaste, pure, and holy love? |
| 11248 | Is not conjugial love alone mutual and reciprocal? |
| 11248 | Is not conjugial love from creation; and does not this love exist between two who are capable of becoming one? |
| 11248 | Is not every man such as instruction makes him,--insane from false principles, or wise from truths? |
| 11248 | Is not it the catechism? |
| 11248 | Is not light changed into shade when the eye comes out of sunshine, and also when it is kept intensely fixed on the sun? |
| 11248 | Is not love with a married partner the love of the sex, which is so universal that it exists even among birds and beasts? |
| 11248 | Is not our spiritual light, which enlightens the sight of the mind, become thick darkness with them? |
| 11248 | Is not subsistence perpetual existence? |
| 11248 | Is not such love barren and devoid of life?" |
| 11248 | Is not the act alike?" |
| 11248 | Is not the body eaten up by worms, mice, and fish? |
| 11248 | Is not the case similar with the brute creation, especially with birds which unite in pairs? |
| 11248 | Is not the fruit good?" |
| 11248 | Is not the lust similar, and the delight similar? |
| 11248 | Is not the soul made blessed by the muttering of words from a devout heart concerning expiation, satisfaction, and imputation, and not by works?" |
| 11248 | Is not the whole human race, and thence the whole angelic heaven, the seed of that love? |
| 11248 | Is not there a trinity? |
| 11248 | Is not this a mere fiction? |
| 11248 | Is not this climbing above the sphere of every one''s intelligence?" |
| 11248 | Is not this love with every one according to the state of his potency? |
| 11248 | Is not this marriage spiritual, which enters the natural marriage of husband and wife?" |
| 11248 | Is not this subject above the sphere of all human understanding?" |
| 11248 | Is not this the case with such as have been deprived of memory? |
| 11248 | Is not this vigor the very measure, degree, and basis of that love? |
| 11248 | Is she not born subject to man''s will; to serve, and not to domineer? |
| 11248 | Is there any wisdom that can bring conviction that to love another person''s wife merits eternal damnation?" |
| 11248 | Is there anything true in the nature of things, but what a man makes true? |
| 11248 | It is well known that religion is called a bond; but it is asked, for whom? |
| 11248 | It was next said to him from behind,"Do you know that those who are in hell are insane from falses?" |
| 11248 | It was then asked them,"Why have you infested the good?" |
| 11248 | It was then said to me,"Do you wish to see them where they now are?" |
| 11248 | Lastly they asked,"Is it not expedient that a priest be present and minister at the marriage ceremony?" |
| 11248 | May not their lot in such a case be compared with that of prisoners bound hand and foot, and lying in a dungeon? |
| 11248 | Moreover families, otherwise barren, are provided with offspring; and is not this an advantage and not a loss? |
| 11248 | Moreover, is not this love carnal? |
| 11248 | Moreover, what is conjugial love but heat, which becomes virtue or potency, if the heat supplied from the sun be added to it?" |
| 11248 | Moreover, without these three doctrines there can be no religion: for does not religion relate to life? |
| 11248 | Must he not learn to walk and to speak? |
| 11248 | Must not the love of the one know and acknowledge the love of the other, so that when they meet they may unite of themselves? |
| 11248 | Nevertheless I was still urgent, and said,"What is more detestable than for a man to mix his soul with the soul of a husband in his wife? |
| 11248 | Nevertheless all the three, infatuated by their own intelligence, burned with a desire to eat of it, and said to each other,"Why should not we? |
| 11248 | On hearing this I asked,"How can any one know whether he performs uses from self- love, or from the love of uses? |
| 11248 | On hearing this account, some of the ancient_ sophi_ asked,"What were the conjectures and conclusions formed from the circumstances you have related?" |
| 11248 | On hearing this exclamation, the hundreds of the wise ones turned themselves, and said one among another with loud laughter,"Is this gross stupidity? |
| 11248 | On hearing this, I asked the two angels from what society of heaven they were? |
| 11248 | On hearing this, I asked,"What he meant by the darkness of the north, the fires of the west, and the delusive lights of the south?" |
| 11248 | On hearing this, the two young novitiates rejoiced, and said,"There still exists in heaven a love of the sex; what else is conjugial love?" |
| 11248 | On seeing him I was alarmed, and cried out,"Approach no nearer; tell me, whence are you?" |
| 11248 | On seeing this, the conducting angel followed them, and asked why they retired so suddenly without entering into conversation? |
| 11248 | On the ancients in Greece, who inquired of strangers, What news from the earth? |
| 11248 | On their consenting, I asked,"How do you wives know that the delights of conjugial love are the same as the delights of wisdom?" |
| 11248 | One of us five, who is a priest, has also added predestination as a cause of that virtue or potency, saying,''Are not marriages predestinated? |
| 11248 | Some time ago, when meditating on this subject, I asked the zealous angels concerning the seat of jealousy? |
| 11248 | Supposing anything of a man to live after death, must it not resemble a spectre? |
| 11248 | Supposing he never learnt to walk, would he ever stand upright? |
| 11248 | THIRD, What is signified by the tree of life, and what by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and what by eating thereof? |
| 11248 | Take away nature, and can you think at all? |
| 11248 | Tell us, therefore, how a love, which not only is not from creation, but is also contrary to creation, could possibly exist? |
| 11248 | The angels asked,"Have the inhabitants of the earth had no previous knowledge respecting correspondences?" |
| 11248 | The angels inquired whether any other things have been revealed? |
| 11248 | The angels inquired,"What do they know concerning our world, and concerning heaven and hell?" |
| 11248 | The angels said,"Did not they know this heretofore?" |
| 11248 | The angels said,"What concerning the life after death? |
| 11248 | The angels said,"Who does not know that the delights of conjugial love exceed those of all other loves? |
| 11248 | The confirmator answered,"Will you, who are a man, think in any case from appearance? |
| 11248 | The first inquiry shall be, Whether religion be anything? |
| 11248 | The first, who were determined adulterers, replied,"What is God?" |
| 11248 | The men on seeing us hastened towards us and said,"Whence are you; and how came you here? |
| 11248 | The president answered,"WHAT NEWS IS THERE FROM THE EARTH CONCERNING OUR WORLD AND HEAVEN?" |
| 11248 | The satyrs who as to the feet appeared as panthers, spoke concerning NATURE, and said,"What is there but nature? |
| 11248 | The second, who were confirmed adulterers, said,"Are not all things of nature? |
| 11248 | The strangers on hearing of judicial proceedings in heaven, said,"To what purpose are such proceedings? |
| 11248 | The three novitiates, on hearing this, asked,"Does a similar love exist between married partners in the heavens as in the earths?" |
| 11248 | The three novitiates, on hearing this, said,"Is it not written in the Word, that in heaven they are not given in marriage, because they are angels?" |
| 11248 | Then I desired to know their opinion concerning the first article of inquiry, Whether religion be anything? |
| 11248 | Then a certain wise personage, one of the marriage- guests, said,"Do you understand the meaning of what you have seen?" |
| 11248 | Then addressing myself to one that was entering, I asked,"What house is this?" |
| 11248 | Then he spoke openly and from the heart, and said,"What is truth? |
| 11248 | Then they were asked,"What connection have joys and delights and the happiness thence resulting, with a state of inactivity? |
| 11248 | Then we asked,"What are your religious notions respecting marriages?" |
| 11248 | There were some canons present, whom I asked whether those had really been popes? |
| 11248 | There were three arcana, FIRST, What is the image of God, and what the likeness of God, into which man(_ homo_) was created? |
| 11248 | These looked into my eyes most shrewdly; upon which I asked them,"Why do you do so?" |
| 11248 | These were running to and fro like wild beasts, crying out,"Where are the women?" |
| 11248 | They asked again,"Why did not you men stand by the bridegroom, now the husband, as the six virgins stood by the bride, now the wife?" |
| 11248 | They asked me,"Who taught you to question us respecting the delights of that love? |
| 11248 | They asked us,"Who let you in through the grove?" |
| 11248 | They asked,"What are they?" |
| 11248 | They asked,"What?" |
| 11248 | They began with the first subject of inquiry, WHAT IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, AND WHAT THE LIKENESS OF GOD, INTO WHICH MAN WAS CREATED? |
| 11248 | They further asked,"Since he represented the Lord, and she the church, why did she sit at his right hand?" |
| 11248 | They replied, that they had attended only to the sound of their voices, and not to the matter; and what is it? |
| 11248 | They replied,"But little;"and then they asked him,"Why was the bridegroom, who is now a husband, dressed in that particular manner?" |
| 11248 | They replied,"What is sin? |
| 11248 | They replied,"What is the Decalogue? |
| 11248 | They replied,"Who ever came up thence to give us information?" |
| 11248 | They then asked,"What is the meaning of so many tables?" |
| 11248 | They were next asked, Whether they saw any good in marriage, and any evil in adultery? |
| 11248 | They were then asked,"What is your delight?" |
| 11248 | They were two married partners from heaven, and they accosted me; and because I was musing on what I had just seen, they inquired,"What did you see?" |
| 11248 | Those who as to the feet appeared like calves, spoke concerning MARRIAGES, and said,"What are marriages but licit adulteries? |
| 11248 | To reason only whether a thing be, is it not like reasoning about a cap or a shoe, whether they fit or not, before they are put on? |
| 11248 | To which the angelic spirits replied,"Look up into heaven and you will receive an answer:"and they asked,"Why are we to look up into heaven?" |
| 11248 | We ask therefore now in the first place, What is meant by the third proceeding divine essential, which is called use?" |
| 11248 | We followed them; and they asked us whence we came, and what was our business there? |
| 11248 | We inquired,"What lot?" |
| 11248 | We next requested him to tell us from his heart, whether he was in joke, or whether he really believed that nothing is true but what a man makes true? |
| 11248 | We then asked him what he was now writing? |
| 11248 | We then asked,"Which of you?" |
| 11248 | We then civilly requested him to tell us, what lay concealed within, which excited his fears? |
| 11248 | We then said,"Were you not born men of reason; whence then have you this visionary infatuation?" |
| 11248 | What are heat and light without that which contains them? |
| 11248 | What are light and darkness but a state of the eye? |
| 11248 | What are they all without the sun; or how could they subsist a single moment in the sun''s absence? |
| 11248 | What can be more anxious and miserable than such an expectation? |
| 11248 | What changes has wisdom undergone? |
| 11248 | What constitutes beauty of countenance, but red and white, and the lovely mixture thereof with each other? |
| 11248 | What distinction is there between a man and a beast, except that a man can speak articulately and a beast sonorously? |
| 11248 | What do you say? |
| 11248 | What else can constitute heavenly joys, but the variations of such pleasures to eternity?" |
| 11248 | What harm can come to a wife from admitting several rivals? |
| 11248 | What has the sun, in which nature originates, in common with a form of government which vies with and is similar to a heavenly one? |
| 11248 | What have we men to do with that childish pamphlet?" |
| 11248 | What human being knows what love is? |
| 11248 | What is a wife but a harlot? |
| 11248 | What is beauty but the delight of the sight? |
| 11248 | What is become of those palaces and magnificent objects? |
| 11248 | What is become of those paradisiacal objects?" |
| 11248 | What is conjugial love but the love of the sex? |
| 11248 | What is it that keeps the whole bodily system in its due expansion and tension, but the tension of the mind? |
| 11248 | What is life but love and wisdom? |
| 11248 | What is life with one woman only, but captivity and imprisonment? |
| 11248 | What is love without wisdom but a mere infatuation? |
| 11248 | What is marriage but allowed adultery? |
| 11248 | What is more obvious than that nature is all in all? |
| 11248 | What is religion but a device to catch and bind the vulgar?" |
| 11248 | What is sweeter than promiscuous liberty, variety, deflorations, schemes to deceive husbands, and plans of adulterous hypocrisy? |
| 11248 | What is that which you do not see?'' |
| 11248 | What is the blackness then which envelops it but a shade, which ought not to determine the raven''s color? |
| 11248 | What is the human body but an organ of life? |
| 11248 | What is the human soul but such a form? |
| 11248 | What is the soul, or where is it in the interim? |
| 11248 | What is there above nature but the sun?" |
| 11248 | What is use but the actual love of our neighbor? |
| 11248 | What law and what judge imputes a like criminality to the fornicator as to the adulterer? |
| 11248 | What maiden can know that new state before she is in it? |
| 11248 | What man of uncorrupted reason does not see that such instincts are not communicated to bees from the natural world? |
| 11248 | What matters it whether we know these things or not? |
| 11248 | What then is light but the state of the eye? |
| 11248 | What woman in such case can unite her love to what is cold; and what man can unite the insanity of his haughtiness to the love of intelligence? |
| 11248 | What would society be if there were no public judicature, and if every one did not exercise his judgement respecting another? |
| 11248 | What young man, if this be the case, can possibly wish for heaven? |
| 11248 | What youth can love any other maiden than the one who loves him in return? |
| 11248 | When I had observed this, an angel presented himself, and said,"Do you understand what you have seen?" |
| 11248 | When I had thus spoken, the two angels asked me,"How could evil exist, when nothing but good had existed from creation? |
| 11248 | When he heard of the difference between what is spiritual and what is natural, he said,"What do you mean by that difference? |
| 11248 | When he observed that he was in the spiritual world, he immediately asked where heaven and hell were, and also their nature and quality? |
| 11248 | When he saw these things, he was amazed, and said,"What do I see? |
| 11248 | When silence was obtained, they were addressed by a kind of president of the assembly, and asked,"WHAT NEWS FROM THE EARTH?" |
| 11248 | When this vigor fails, must not the love itself also fail and grow cold? |
| 11248 | Whence are the senses of these organs but from life, and their forms but from nature? |
| 11248 | Whence is a man(_ homo_) a man but from wisdom? |
| 11248 | Where am I? |
| 11248 | Where were those things previous to the sun''s existence? |
| 11248 | While I was thus amazed at the great multitude of such persons, there stood near me an angel, who asked me,"What is the subject of your meditation?" |
| 11248 | Who can convert concupiscence, which is innate in every man, into such chastity, thus into somewhat not itself, and yet love? |
| 11248 | Who can draw the conclusion, that he that has committed fornication can not be more chaste in marriage? |
| 11248 | Who can love what is not love? |
| 11248 | Who can measure its quality and quantity? |
| 11248 | Who does not foresee, that if the women courted the men, they would seldom be accepted? |
| 11248 | Who does not grow tired of one? |
| 11248 | Who does not know that a man lives after death?" |
| 11248 | Who does not know that whatever a man does in the beginning, is from concupiscence, because from the natural man? |
| 11248 | Who does not know what delight is? |
| 11248 | Who does not know, that he that is an adulterer is not on that account a murderer, a thief, and a false witness, or wishes to be so? |
| 11248 | Who does not know, that the body does not act of itself, but the will by the body? |
| 11248 | Who does not see that such gesticulators are men only as to external figure, and not as to internal form? |
| 11248 | Who does not see that this is contrary to the laws of nature? |
| 11248 | Who does not see, that unless a man was allowed to judge respecting the moral life of those who live with him in the world, society would perish? |
| 11248 | Who else is to be approached, and who else can be? |
| 11248 | Who has ever contemplated it with any idea of thought? |
| 11248 | Who has ever seen it with the eye? |
| 11248 | Who knows any distinction between them? |
| 11248 | Who sees God? |
| 11248 | Who sees them? |
| 11248 | Who would not swear from them that it is so? |
| 11248 | Who, but a person of vile character, can fulfil the duties of the conjugial bed, and at the same time have commerce with a strumpet? |
| 11248 | Why did God permit this?" |
| 11248 | Why did you not question our husbands?" |
| 11248 | Why do not you ask, whether we live with one harlot? |
| 11248 | Why is a plurality of wives denied us, when yet it has been granted, and at this day is granted in the whole world about us? |
| 11248 | Why therefore do those three priests preach that adulterers have no acknowledgement of God? |
| 11248 | Wondering at all this, I looked up into heaven, and inquired where those horsemen were going? |
| 11248 | Wondering what this could mean, I speedily left the house, and asked one of those who were running, what was the matter at the palace? |
| 11248 | also that the mouth does not speak of itself, but the thought by the mouth? |
| 11248 | also, who can rightly perceive discordant and grating sounds, but he that is well versed in the doctrine and study of harmonious numbers? |
| 11248 | and are not these things appertaining to a man in his soul, and by derivation from the soul in his head and body? |
| 11248 | and are they incapable on that account of acknowledging and worshipping God? |
| 11248 | and consequently, is not faith of charity, and charity of faith? |
| 11248 | and do you not hold it forth as a bait and enticement to accede to your new opinions? |
| 11248 | and he replied,"How can you say so, when we absolutely seem to ourselves, and are also acknowledged by each other, to have such distinction?" |
| 11248 | and how can a man do the latter and shun the former but as from himself? |
| 11248 | and how can a spectre eat and drink, or how can it enjoy conjugial delights? |
| 11248 | and if it be a state of the eye, is not light darkness, and darkness light? |
| 11248 | and in Paul, that adulterers can by no means enter heaven?" |
| 11248 | and in proportion as that affection grows warm, do not they also grow warm in the same degree? |
| 11248 | and in what does this delight originate but in the sport of love and wisdom? |
| 11248 | and is not he that is insane from false principles, entirely possessed with an imagination that he is wiser than he that is wise from truths? |
| 11248 | and is not it hell where any one is a servant: and is not he a servant who is obliged to keep to one?" |
| 11248 | and is not life in the whole and in every part?" |
| 11248 | and is not the red derived from love, and the white from wisdom? |
| 11248 | and is not their natural light, which only enlightens the bodily sight, become brightness to them? |
| 11248 | and is there not there and nowhere else a constant succession of satisfactions and pleasures? |
| 11248 | and they said,"What are polygamical marriages? |
| 11248 | and this being the case, are not the progeny thence issuing and the means conducive thereto, predestinated also?'' |
| 11248 | and what do I smell now? |
| 11248 | and what has a carnal principle in common with the spiritual state of the church? |
| 11248 | and what holds the heavens together with this love?" |
| 11248 | and what is an essence without a form, but an imaginary entity? |
| 11248 | and what is life but to shun evils and do goods? |
| 11248 | and what is love with wisdom without use, but a puff of the mind? |
| 11248 | and what is more delightful than to set the love at liberty? |
| 11248 | and what is nature but their recipient, whereby they may produce their effects or uses? |
| 11248 | and what is sweeter than adulterous hypocrisies, and the making fools of husbands?" |
| 11248 | and what the flesh does from the spirit, is not that spiritual? |
| 11248 | and when I asked him concerning these words what he heard, he said,"I heard,''Do you know that those who are in heaven are wise from truths?''" |
| 11248 | and when the latter words were spoken to him from behind, he said that he heard,"Do you know that those who are in hell, are insane from falses?" |
| 11248 | and whence comes the tension of the mind but from administrations and employments, while the discharge of them is attended with delight? |
| 11248 | and who but the vulgar and common herd of mankind acknowledges what he does not see and understand? |
| 11248 | and who can discern the various kinds of insanity, but he that is wise, or that knows what wisdom is? |
| 11248 | and who is not revived by several? |
| 11248 | and who knows what is unchaste, dishonorable, unbecoming, and ugly, unless he knows what is chaste, honorable, becoming, and beautiful? |
| 11248 | and why is there such a vociferation on that account?" |
| 11248 | are not all in heaven inspired and led by God, and in consequence thereof taught what is just and right? |
| 11248 | are not all things relating to love and all things relating to wisdom essentials of that form? |
| 11248 | at that instant they saw a moth running upon my paper, and asked in surprise what was the name of that nimble little creature? |
| 11248 | consequently, how can surfaces, which constitute the expanse, produce centres? |
| 11248 | do you not see that this is true?" |
| 11248 | does not he that lives well also believe well? |
| 11248 | for what is spiritual but that which is natural in a higher state of purity?" |
| 11248 | he answered,"He is still my servant; what is an emperor before God? |
| 11248 | he replied,"There I am a devil, but here I am an angel of light: do you not see that my head is surrounded by a lucid sphere? |
| 11248 | he replied,"What shall I say? |
| 11248 | how came this bird of night here?'' |
| 11248 | how can two contraries appear true?" |
| 11248 | in like manner, who can clearly discern what is the quality of adultery, unless he has first clearly discerned what is the quality of marriage? |
| 11248 | is it not a stench? |
| 11248 | is it not like the difference between what is more or less pure? |
| 11248 | is it not straw and dry wood? |
| 11248 | of the decalogue? |
| 11248 | the fifth, Whether there be eternal life after death?" |
| 11248 | the fourth, Whether there be a heaven and a hell? |
| 11248 | the garments were resplendent as with a flaming light; and on their asking the angel,"Whence is this?" |
| 11248 | the second, Whether there be such a thing as salvation or not? |
| 11248 | the third, Whether one religion be more efficacious than another? |
| 11248 | there appeared as it were lakes of fire and brimstone; and I asked him, why the hells in that quarter had such an appearance? |
| 11248 | they said,"Every one;"and we asked,"How every one? |
| 11248 | they said,"Where is the sin? |
| 11248 | what is a female?" |
| 11248 | what is to hinder me? |
| 11248 | what need then is there of judges?" |
| 11248 | whence can it have clothes, houses, meats,& c.? |
| 11248 | whence do you procure parchment and paper, pens and ink?" |
| 11248 | who conceives that God governs, and can govern the universe, with everything belonging thereto? |
| 11248 | who understands what God is? |