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PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTEAMMELED LIVES!

BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

Vol. X.—~No. 21.—-—VVhole No. 255 '

NEVV -YORK, OCT. 28, 1875. ‘

PRICE TEN CEN 

The truth shall make you free.-—Jesus.
In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the

mystery of God shall be fine'shed.—St. John the
Divine. .

Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un-
searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in
Gocl.—Panl.

PHASES OF THE MONEY QUESTION.

All delvers in the past are conscious that many distinctive
eras have marked thc world's advancement; that each one
of these clearly defined periods has dethroned some popular
idol, has established some heretical custom; nor is there any
reason to believe that the future will reverse this order.

It needs only a. glance at the present condition of our coun-
try, with its universally depressed industries, its vast number
of unemployed laborers, its large amount of circulating me-
dium, valuable only through endorsement. its heavy indebt-
edness in national bonds, in State, municipal, and corpora-
tive obligations to non-residents, to see that wide-spread and
deeply-rooted causes are now in active operation impelling
to a change in existing orders, pointing to another historical
epoch. A more comprehensive survey will add to these ex-
citing issues the growing combination of producers for pur-
poses of self-protection, andthe constant tendency of trades-
unions to an international basis, the steady concentration
"of elements opposed to capital, foreshadowing the division
of humanity into two classes, laborers and capitalists. Al-
ready these revolutionary conditions have permeated all
ranks; have furnished themes for magazine essays, for stir-
ring editorials in the dailies, for gloomy comment in
bank parlors, for common-place business gossip, and now
are becoming the all absorbing topic among political factions;
proving that the money question has passed from prophets-
those abstracts who areiable to discern events not yet out-
wrought—-to agitators who are unfolding its phases to the
people. . ,

The subject is no minor one, it is no mere adjustment of

‘parties, but is an uprising of humanity. questioning whether

existing financial rule is that best adapted to the welfare of
the people; it is a protest against the thralldom of capital and
will ultimately involve the titles to land; for beyond every
otherissue is how. the soil, the heritage of all, shall be made
to yield its increase for all, and not for that portion alone
who, directly or through ancestral transmission, now hold
legal claims thereto-..-claims obtained by swordcraft, by
favor of princes, by cunning in trade, or, by capacity to sway
legislators. . A ~ .

Under the rule of patriarchs, when the labor of dependents
accrued as unquestioningly to the master as did the increase
of his fiocks and herds, there was little need for a medium of
exchange; but as man advanced from serfdom to the present
theoretical right to the results of his toil, many modes for
the interchange of products have been devised. From direct
barter of commodities~—through beads and shells, through
bronze and iron—we have arrived at gold and silver,.mediums
of intrinsic value, chosen because bad faith has in the past
defrauded creditors. ‘

To say that this metallic standard shall be a perpetuity is
to discard past experience; is to affirm that evolution has
ceased, is to aver that wisdom has exhausted her resources.
Ruskin says that, “A circulating medium of intrinsic value is"
a relic of barbarism.”

Already civilized nations have advanced beyond the actual
use of coin in the exchange of goods. Checks, with or with-

- out certification, that is, the credit of a corporation or of an

individual, are the exclusive medium employed in all large
transactions; while the specie redemption of circulation and
deposits has always beena delusion: it has only been pos-
sible for the few to draw coin because the many did not de?
sire so to do. Whenever a general demand has been made
banks have always suspended payment in gold, and such
suspension, when the institutions were solvent, has invariably
restored harmony. ' i

A Herbert Spencer says. “ The monetary arrangements of

any community are ultimately dependent,~.1ike most other

arrangements, on the morality of its members. Amongst a
people altogether dishonest every mercantile transaction
must be effected in coin or goods; forpromises to pay cannot
circulate at all when by the hypothesis there is no probability
that they will be redeemed. Conversely, amongst perfectly.
honest people, paper alone will form the circulating medium,
and metallic money will be needless. Manifestly, therefore;
during any intermediate state in which men are neither
altogether dishonest nor altogether honest, a mixed currency
will exist; and the ratio of paper to coin will, be the degree
of trust individuals place in each other.” .

It may be objected to this View that it ignores Smit, Ricardo
56 Say, that it takes no account of assignats, of continental or
confederate currency. Has victory never been reached
through defeat? What, if an inordinate paper issue, based
on the desolation of war, did take property without returning
a due equivalent therefor, was the material wealth of greater
value than the life of the conscripted individual? Or what.
if a nation, frenzied by the passion for sudden riches, did
abuse the privileges of national faith, is that a reason why
a sane commonwealth shall be deprived of its just pre-
rogatives?

Shall it be for ever necessary for humanity to incur the
labor and toil incidental to the acquirement of a median of
exchange that has intrinsicvalue, when, under normal con-
ditions, the nation’s faith for a similar amount would be
equally eflicacious? A

Even Stuart Mill acknowledged that a paper currency
which supplants a gold circulation of equal amount would
not increase the cost of production.

But so long has the world regarded money as the reality,’
instead of only a means to an end, that it has been lifted up
as an idol, has had bestowed upon it—through inter_est——the

god-like privilege of re-production; has been exalted above}
human beings, for the individual can be drafted by the
Moloch of war, while capital is sacred, it da\re not be touched,
until permission has been granted, until terms of restoration"
have been conceded, until the bonus has been allowed, until.

the rate of interest has been acceded to.

Well then may lovers of the human race strike at the,
Gorgon of interest—capital’s power of re-creation, of‘

enslavement. V .
When the blow has fallen, when might has no longer
power to retain its grasp uponusurped possessions, when the

day of restitution has come, and money kings follow feudal;
lords and slave-masters into eternal oblivion, then may
humanity lift up its head with rejoicing, for then will the

attributes of the race, quickened by the rich nourishment of

its righteous inheritance, expand in fuller accord with the‘

design of its Author.

LABOR STRIKES.
BY A. GAYLORD SPALDING.

Dear Editors-—Grangers and others know the universal
antagonismiof labor and capital, which explains all labor
strikes everywhere. Wise or otherwise, they are always
justifiable or excusable. and will continue in the nature of

C. Bnpvron.

things until justice and equity shall harmonize the relations’

of men and classes, employers and employees. Labor has

the first claim, that which can never be yielded or relin-

quished, since life itself is only sustained by labor.

The negro had rights founded in human nature, and the:

rebellion was his strike——-most terribly bloody, to be sure, but
the last resort. In earth or heaven who can ever blame or
condemn him? It was the crack of doom to hoary injustice,
cruelty and tyranny, and should have been a lesson far ex-
tended, heeded and applied. But mankind are slowto learn.

The Grange is news. grand and extensive strikeof the
white man as well as black. We avoid the blood. but mean
none the less.‘ It is a claim for justice and equal rights for
farmers and producers, against nor. -producers and vampires.
Parties and sects are ignored. ‘It is a question of manhood
and labor, against money and non-labor, or aristocracy. We
inaugurate a new order of aristocracy, namely, the aristoc-
racy of labor. ‘

Man is man. and who is more? Not even President Grant,
Henry Ward Beecher, or the Pope of Rome. Men_ have
their pets and idols of party and sect, but the Grange favors
none of them. Come down, we say, to the lordly millionaires,

and the hundred thousand and -fifty thousand dollar preachers,

and ofiice-holders. N o matter under what namepor head you

put.it--r.eligion, church. minister, bible orpolitics--it is 

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one thing to the Granger.‘ Come down to the farmer’s ‘half
bushel. Ever so big or high, you have to eat the same bread
with us, and we produce it. It is common sense. common
right, common humanity.

No privileged class of clergy, church, or profession, of any
kind; because the farmer claims equal manhood, and such
partiality crushes him down. You may boast of your Web-
sters, Choates, or Butlers; but the essence of all law, even
the seedy and swarthy farmer can understand and save the
fees, though his speech he not reported in the morning paper
You may be proud of your Beechers and Spurgeons, but the
substance of all true practical religion the plainest and hum-
blest workers may comprehend without making any man an
idol, pope, or god, for an easy and genteel profession.

All superfluous offices, legislation and burdens of old cus-
tom or habit, in the past, we throw ofi‘ and abolish, because
thereby labor is taxed, shackled and crushed. It is a strike,
and we strike in various ways: by oral or written speech. by
the newspaper and by the ballot. Let the heroic WEEKLY
strike. It does strike. Never fear to speak the saving truth.
Speech is our great weapon and power. Speak, sing, write,
print the burning and blistering truth. “ VVho would be free
himself must strike the blow.” W'e.may make a bloody strike,
but there are wiser methods. Ballot is better than bullet.

Strike, printers; strike, mechanics; strike, farmers; strike
miners of Pennsylvania, in the dark coal-beds. Strike, work-
ers of New York and all America. ,

Woman suffrage is a noble and glorious strike; and the suc-
cess of the Grange is the success of that, because it is a Grange
principle and fundamental. The Grange Movement is na_tion-

.nal, not sectional, and therefore when women vote in Min-

nesota or California, they will do the same in New York and
New England. Millions of G-rangers will be millions for wo-
man's ballot. Then keep it before the people. East or West,
the cause is one everywhere. Strike!

Government with us is a multiplicity, a complicity and a
combination, and may be compared to a newspaper, the people
being the types, and self—compositors; or to a mixed, cunning
and intricate web, with the people for warp and woof, and
self-weaving. Oh,‘ such a nice, curious, beautiful, harmo-
nious, and happy system! All right for the millennium,-only
cure the diabolical abuses and abominations. But the Grants,
Beechers and generalissimos of State and Church. incline to
stand outside, apeg or two above the people,.to boss,,assume
and monopolize the whole job, and lay on the taxes. And

now the Granger says strike. We will mark and correct

the foul proof-sheet, and pick out the knotted and tangled‘
threads. Strike! We all are labor strikers, to kill monopoly
stone dead. Strike in November like a thunderbolt. A “One

‘ shall chase» a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight.”

CHAMPLIN, Minnesota.

TO HELEN NASH.

VALCOUR ISLAND, N. Y. "

Many times since our brief but pleasant acquaintance I
have had it in my mind to write to you, and especially of
late. since you have been doing such vigorous pen-work in
the WEEKLY, I have been inspired to send you a “ Goodifor
you, glorious Helen! ” but over much work has prevented
me, and now it falls out that when I do take up my pain to
write to you it is rather in the way of criticism thanofvcom-
niendation; for while I _ rejoice over the many good and
noble things you have said, yet “ I have somewhat against
thee.” It is your views on communism as expressed ina.
late number of the WEEKLY that I must dissentfrom. 

I am devoted heart and soul to the cause of communism,
snice that form of social organization appears to me the only
remedy for our industrial and social difficulties; and as ‘you
confessedly have not given the l subject much attention and
are anxious to be set right if you are wrong, I am sure you
will be willing to “ hear me for my cause.”

Communism isa system of co-operative labor in which the
producers receive all the profits of their labor ’ instead of
givingyfour-fifths of what they earn to ‘non-producing goon.
sumers, as in the old system. Communism insures to” the
workers the advantages of machinery and other facilities for
carrying on business, which isolated labor cannot afford.

 

These are itsibasic advantages as an industrial system, and 1 ’
prefer to them thus briefly as a sort of text for your own mind

to elaborate; _ for it is in regard to the social ‘phases of com-
mkunism that ‘I wishto speak most particularly. ' A

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(11106 social freedom into society as now organized. The
cause of woman’s sexual slavery is her industrial inequality.
No woman can be sexually free so long as she must be de-
pendent in any way upon man. Woman in the isolated home
works harder, as a rule, than the man does, but he is the
purse-holder, andshe must look to him for supplies, while
she is regarded’ mainly as a non-producer. Nor can this state
of things be remedied so long as the isolated family is kept up.
A woman may. indeed, bid defiance to law and custom and,
if she has good health and the good luck to secure employ-
ment,fnr which there are a thousand competitors, may live
after a fashion, even in the isolated competitive system; but
it must be a homeless, childless life. Let her set up an iso-
lated home and her independence is gone. She can’t work
in somebody else’s kitchen or ofifice, for she has her own
hfiouseh '>1d duties to attend to. And oh, the drudgery of it!
She has to do everything at a disadvantage because she can’t
afford labor-saving machines for a small scale of business.
She can’t/afiord steam bakeries, churns, sewing-m achines,
’etc.: the only way these can be secured is by co-operating
"with others. By-and-by her children come and she is tied
hand and foot. The babies must be taken care of, and nurs-
ing isn’t a paying business—for the mother. She is depend-
ent on the generosity of the father for her own support
while she t-akes care of their children. A dependent is
always a slave, whether she be wife or companion. Her
master may be a good one, but he has the power to be mean
if he wants to, and the woman positively cannot help herself
(unless she breaks away from her home and deserts her chil-
dren, or, taking them with her, works likea slave to sup-
port them, living in constant dread lest her master reclaim
them by the arm of the law. In short, woman as a class can-
not be financially independent in the isolated home, and so
long as she is financially dependent upon man he will be her
sexual master.

There can be no real freedom of the affections in the isolated

home, without causing inharmony, misery and disruption.
Suppose a loving couple establish an isolated household.
They are all-absorbed in each other at first, and perfectly con-
tent with each other's society.. But a time comes, very natur-
ally, considering the way they live, when constant association
produces an equilibrium of elements between them, and their
joy in each other is lessened. Then a new attraction comes
to one of,them—the woman, we wil.l say. They all believe in
social freedom, but how are matters going to be arranged?
Shall the second lover come in and live with them, and they
all together care for the children that may result? If so,
they have formed a little community, and by-and-by, when
the first lover brings home a new mate, their number will be,
4 increased, and as new attractions may, from time to time, be
formed, their little free—love community will grow, and the
chi1dren——love-children, all that are born to them———will be
cared for by the whole, while some co-operative labor, which
they would soon find it possible to establish, would render
each financially independent. That would be a happy out-
come of affectional freedom, the only really tolerable or
noble direction that affairs could take.

But suppose those two lovers in the beginning didn’t
believe in communism, what is to be done when the new

' lover comes? There must, inevitably, be a breaking-up, and
a separation of parents from children, and one of them go off
childless to start another isolated home, with the liability of
having it broken up in a like manner.

Or suppose it is the man who finds the new attraction.
Shal_l he desert his home and go and break up somebody
else’s? or shall the firstlove give up her home to another.
and, taking her children with her, move out to fight their
bread and butter out of the world single handed? or shall
she leave her children to the care of a stepmother? Arrange
it how we may, two homes must inevitably be broken up if
the isolated household is to be maintained, and no legal con-
tracts or agreements that might be made could obviate this.

‘ They might secure the legal rights of all the parties, but they

cannot prevent the home-break and heart-break. In fact, it
seems to me that the attempt to graft social freedom into
the isolated home system would bring about a worse state of
things than now results from the legal marriage.

But in the communal home all this bitter unsettling
would be avoided. In the first place, woman would be finan-
cially independent: therefore sexually free. She would re-
ceive the actual benefit from all her labor, and no man
would have a right to claim sexual favors in return for sup-
porting her or her children. Love-unions would be more
likely to be permanent in a community than in the isolated
home. because the free association of the se'xes—free social
intercourse——would keep each supplied with fresh elements
and prevent neutralization; but if parties chose to discon-
tinue their sexual relations they need not be enemies. but may
be the best of friends; nor need there, if new attractions are
formed. be any breaking up of homes or separations from
children. If they have children both parents may still
‘work for their interests and enjoy their society, while
the children are insured a good home and education, whether
their parents be sexually united or separated, or whether
they be alive or dead. '

Now as regards the conducting of a community, many
erroneous ideas are put forth by persons who have had no
practical experience therein. Some of these I see you have
imbibed. Many persons regard Communism as some kind of
mysterious order in which must be lived a monkish and un-
natural life; but modern Communism means nothing of this
kind. It simply proposes to establish mutual benefit socie-

ties, in which by co-operation each may receive the benefit
arising from the combined labor of all. If people could once
realize that they are not called upon to make great sacrifices
by co-operating. but on the contrary are to derive great
benefits therefrom, they would immediately set about com-
bining their efforts, and would soon find that community

life, Which had hitherto seemed so uninviting, was the most
‘pleasant and altogether the most profitable way of living.

Nor do persons lose their individual freedom in a rightly

‘organized community. It may be that there are communi-

ties in which there is a system of espionage, but it is not

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necessary or best that it should be so. ‘I know by experience
that there is more freedom in communal life than there is in
most isolated households. What isolated family has not its
“head centre,” and how many of these head centres are
absolute tyrants? Many promising young lives are crushed
and saddened by the ignorant, despotic rule of the house-
hold monarch. Deliver me and my children from the one
man power; if I must be governed let it be by the voice
of the many.  .

It is true that in a community the members are expected
to work for the best interest of the whole, and not selfishly
pursue a course that would be detrimental to the general
welfare. But I know by experience that in a prosperous
community one need not make as many sacrifices as they are
obliged to make in the isolated house. .

That toiling mother drudging around with two or three
children at her heels would be glad to go back to the dear old
homestead for a little while. just to get a good rest. But it
isn’t to be thought of, of course._ Traveling is expensive and
it takes the closest kind of economy to barely live; any out-
lay for more pleasure is out of the question, and the house
and children must be taken care of, and the head centre sup-
plied with provisions and ciean shirts. The “ general good ’
won’t allow the visit this summer, nor next, nor ever till the
tired spirit breaks away from the worn out body and makes
a “rapid transit,” free of cost, right back to the dear old
mother’s bosom. '

And just here observe one of the grand features of commu-
nal life; one need not be separated from kindred, but may
have parents and children and children’s children around
them until death do them part. .

Ah! the many hopes and aspirations and desires that must
be crushed out in the isolated home; must be, because people
cannot afford to gratify them. Nothing like so many sacri-
fices need be made in .‘a communal home after the pioneer
work of establishmentgis once accomplished.

‘There are things I could say on this subject,
but my letter is quite long enough; just a. word though I will
say in regard to another matter. I too am waiting anxiously
for the revelation that is to come through our inspired Vic-
toria; waiting with hope and confidence," for she who has
given us such precious jewels of truth heretofore will not
fail us now. Who knows but the “marriage of the Lamb
and the Bride ” is to take place at last?

With love and appreciation I remain, one of your sisters,

H. AUGUSTA WHITE.

CLERKS AND SHOPPERS.

No woman can helpbeing pained at the very offensive con-
duct of “lady clerks.” Not that" all are so, any more than
that every young man in this city is a defaulter and a thief.
because poor Holden has been found guilty of those ofi"enses,
and is now sufi"ering the penalty.

But that some, and more than half one meets in the shops,
do exhibit painful weaknesses,'l believe every honest person
can see ‘by testing the matter. The sensitiveness of people,
if gauged by the thickness of the skin and their power of
discerning rudeness in others, is not altogether a fair judg
ment in this case. The shopwoman makes her victim feel
her power, at any hazard. She meets you with a certain
brusqueness, and “I’ll do you the honor,” etc., sort of air,
which, if you are at all mercurial, will drop the figures at
once to zero. Sometimes these “ladies” carry it so far as
to look you out of countenance, as the saying is, and,
measuring you from head to foot—-which means, simply,
taking notes of your dress and “ style”———she puts her thumb
at once upon the screw and turns it to any degree of pressure
she sees fit, in her estimate of yourself, to do. You are
her quasi victim for the nonce. Well! Let us ponder.

There are reasons for this eccentricity of the shopwoman,
and reasons, too, that require looking into quite as much
as the other side needs reforming, I was bent on probing
the matter, not only to defend myself against this violation
of “good manners,” which I met with nine times out of
ten, but to be fair toward the “ladies,” also, who hand me
over my silks and fans. etc., eto., and do faithful work for
their proprietors, who give them in return the lowest per-
centage on profits which possibly will serve the servitor.

I stated the case to one very decently behaved person on
Eighth st., who began with a like complaint against her
customers. I saw the “talk” had fairly got started, and
that she was able and willing to speak in her own defense,
and for shop-girls generally. If she had been humble, and
let me ‘have all the say, I should have passed along and
buried the hatchet for the day. But she marched coolly
into the fight. ' '

She asserted that her lady customers were very tiresome.

Very! They handled over the things without the slightest
intention of buying, in a great many instances, and they
were so tired of the wayin which these usurpers of their
time walked leisurely from counter to counter, “without
buying.” "And they are so pretentious,” said the clerk.
“ We see ourselves so differently from the way in which they
see us,” she added, dropping her eyes. “ They think us mere
automatons, and we are keenly alive to the suffering we ex-
perience from their disregard of us, and it makes us what we
are—brusque and rude. If these ladies who ‘shop’ ‘lvould
regard not us, but decency, we should regard it too.”
So the war goes on. But we are the stronger side, and we
lift our heads loftily, and unconsciously,‘ perhaps, require
them to do what they should not feel as coming from us, but
an obligation resting upon them as responsible business
agents; nevertheless, we do it, and lounge away the hours
for which we have no occupation at home, and forget we owe
a duty to them, if we areas much “ladies” as we ought to
be.

There is wrong on both sides,_a.nd because the one partyis
Mrs. Simpson, of Simpson, Flamingo,& Co.,and the other, Jane
Stokes, who is earning her living, which Mrs. Simpson has
done for her, why it does not follow that she shall carry any-

thing but “ drawing-room manners ” even into the shops.

I wish the Legislature might, or would, pass a law that

“ Moderation in all things,” is the best motto in this case. .

there shall be no more “shades.” If I were a shop-woman
behind the counter, I would see to it that such a law was
passed. And yet, the “ shades ” are not so bad as the inso-
lence of the “ shoppers ” who tear the piles of goods to pieces
for a “particular shade,” and then walk away without as
much as acknowledging how “ tiresome” they've been.
CHARLOTTE BARBER.

PHILA., Oct. 3, 1865.

RELIGION AND CHRISTIANITY.

There are two kinds of light in the spiritual as well as in
the material world, one has heat——the power to produce and
bring forth. The other has only light that is borrowed from
the first. . -

The Sun of Righteousness that arose and shown upon the
Jews, is refiected from them on the Gentiles. The light of
the moon has no power to vivify, impregnate and cause the
earth to bring forth. It must have the direct rays of the
sun. So in the spiritual world, merely refiected light can
never bring forth the peaceful fruits of righteousness. And
not until the Sun of Righteousness has shone directly upon
the Gentiles can we have a genuine Christian Church. "

We have a religion, so had the Jews, but it is plain to any
one capable of judging the tree by its fruit that we have not
the religion of Jesus Christ.. Our religion is a sad mixture
of the Mosaic law, and the reflected light from Paul and the
Apostles, and our churches are as far from living out what
they profess as the Jews were when Christ came among
them; and when He comes among us he will have the same

doctrines, the commandments of men.” He never taught,
or expected persons who were not capable of living the
Mosaic law to live up to the requirements of his teachings.

To expect one born on the plane of self—love or “down in
Egypt” to love their neighbors as themselves is simply
preposterous, and to surround them with conditions to
systematlze that selfishness, and then call it universal love, is
to help them to a sheep’s covering to hide the wolf, and to
educate them into hypocrisy.

And this is what the churches and religious organizations
are doing all over the world. They have yet to learn that
there is no power in heaven or earth that can help such per-
sons into love of others, except suflering and disappointment
that surely follows a life of self-love, if they are destined
for a higher life. If that does not folzow, and they prosper
and are happy in their darkness, it is proof positive that they
have no demand for a higher life and broader love. we

Then why persuade them to profess one? when the Bible
believers can learn to look upon the journeythrough the
wilderness to the promised land, as figurative and symbolical
of the interior or spiritual condition of the whole human
family, they will perceive that those born in Egypt (in
spiritual darkness) do not reach the promised land. Those
born when part way through do not have to pass through
the experience of the golden calf or be bitten by fiery ser-
pents, and those born upon the borders of the land are all
ready to stop right in without any of the ‘experiences that
others have passed through.

When the Church is ready to believe and accept the doc-
trine of election and foreordination taught by Jesus, as a
grand, harmonious and just law, there are many things that
can be reconciled that now seem dark and hard to under-
stand. V

Human nature is the same to-day that it was two thousand
years ago. Those who have no light within themselves judge
every one by themselves. ADAMS.

GEMS FROM FOURTER.
‘ SELECTED BY A. CRIDGE.
ON THE RELATIONS on THE SEXES-—-[ CON'J.‘INUED.]
Free Love in the “ Combined Order” not immodest.
[REMARK.—Some of the following expressions I am unable
to translate or understand, as, in deference to popular prej u-
dice, Fourier felt compelled to withhold details that might
nov. be valuable. But I have thought it advisable to retain
them untranslated, as in them, as elsewhere in Fourier’s
Writings, is found the expression “ Free Love ” (libre amour),
which some suppose was first used in 1853. whereas Fourier
must have used it as early, probably, as 1824. Mr. Brisbane
could probably clear up these obscurities]
RALLYING POINTS or LOVE.
Par _le Feat.
Par 1’ Angelicat.

11:2: is  l Descending from superior to inferior.

The suppression of articles (referring to the publication of
details on account of conservative prejudice) is so much the
more unpleasant for me because they would have disap-
pointed the malignants who startby supposing that a theory
of Free Love is a theory of obscenity.

Certainly all liberty of this kind among civilizees is a source
of immodesty and shamelessness; but in Harmony, the Four
rallying points of love are the pledges of sublime social virtues
corresponding to the following table:

Au Feat-—Composite hospitality--( feade.)

A l’ Angelicat—Composite civism.

Au Faquirat-—-Composite charity. A

Au Pivotal——Compound constancy-—( mu scade.) V

The four rallying points of love lead to the end which mor-
alists, and even romancists, desire to reach; that is, to secure
the predominance in love of the spiritual principle termed
sentimental affection, gallantry; to prevent the exclusive in-
fluence of the material principle, or lubricity, which, when
exclusively dominant in love, degrades the human species to
the level of brutes. (V. 462.)

Ignorant and deceiving as to the legitimate uses of freedom,
they desire it to be unlimited in commerce, of which the
crimes (II. 219) and the frauds (III. 124) everywhere need to
be curbed by law, and deprive love of all freedom, the vast
range of which, in the passional series, would lead to all the
virtues, to all the wonders in social polities. What an un-

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What an instinct of opposition to all the ways of nature and
of truth. (V. 463.)

We term pivotal an affection which rules all the others, to

which one returns periodically and which holds out in con-
currence with other amours more frequent and more ardent.
(V. 468 )

Civilization is incapable of any study on the simple and
composite in 1ove——on the beautiful social combinations of
which composite love is susceptible when it modulates in all
degrees of the gamut. (III. 357.) Hence the elevation of the
amorous populace, the titled bourgeois and solitones and the
degradation of the passional officers—(V. 439 )——-the poly tones,
who are alone competent to regulate the ainorous series. By
reason of this hierarchial subversion the system of amours in
civilization is pure erotic Jacoblwism, the sovereignty of the
personal populace; that is to say, of low degrees in character
and the degradation of all high degrees, or souls susceptible
of the grandiose ties, and of capacity for general direction.
(V. 469.)

[REMARK.—Expressed in current phraseology I think his
idea is as follows: So far as the free exercise of the afiections
is indicated and the sexual relations regulated by laws, cus-
toms or religious requiring outward conformity to a standard,
the control of these relations is assumed by exactly the
people who know least of the higher and spiritual elements of

_ sexual attract-ion——to gross srlmplists who, knowing nothing of

the spiritual and little of the emotional in these relations,
are not sensitive to inharmonics, and yet make laws and
customs for those to whom discord or want of adaptation is
absolute torture; while fine, sensitive, spiritual people who
find it difficult to meet with those of the other sex who can
fully respond to their needs, both physically and spiritually,
and who may, therefore, seek in many, successively or at in-
tervals, what they cannot find in one~—these “polytones ”
whose organizations and experiences qualify them to arbi-
trate and advise in all that pertains to these relations, are
trampled down by the herds of “respectable” goats, “re-—
spectable ” sticks and “respectable ” bundles of millinery
who lord it in the church, the State and the social circle.

I do not think, however, that it follows that love of variety
is necessarily an indication of an appreciation of the spiritual
element in love, or that constancy proves a want of that ap-
preciation.]

An index of this subversion is the predominant opinion on
the two principles or elements of love (379 ), lubricity and
'sent'1ment—(" celadonie.”) People pretend to degrade the
first—the material—which, nevertheless, dominates exclu-
sively; then it is pretended to consider the second, the spir-
itual, which is not only in fact ridiculed, but unknown, con-
founded with sentimental duperies and visions. * * * *

* * *‘ * By the want of the spiritual element, the
beautiful combinations which it can produce, the Angelicate
and the Faquirate (461), has not been discovered, nor has the
unsocial and depraved state of _civi1ized loves been proved.
(V. 469-70)

The Passions are the work of an Eternal cicometer; he
does not proceed arbitrarily, as Plato or Seneca, compress-
ing this and proscribing that. He has not created them use-
lessly; they have a function, which it is proposed to deter-
mine by fixed rules. Thousands of theories of morality and
social equilibrium persuade us that moderation and repression
are the paths of wisdom. I am about to prove, in a sketch
of the Cardinal Rallying Points, that we can only arrive at
social equilibrium by a vast development of the Passions, an
unlimitefifirange, but counterbalanced by quadruple impul-
sions. '

I have shown that each passion—( emotion, sentiment, pro-
pensit y )——should——

1. Operate by a composite base. * * * * * * * For
example: In the mechanism of ambition, if there be allied
to a community ininterest without glory, a glory without in-
terest, we shall never get beyond social discords.

2. To develops the passions in composite counterparts——two
ranges ascendant, directly and inversely; two c ounter-
ranges descendant, directly and inversely. i

3. To maintain these ranges in all degrees sophists have
only admitted the principle of unlimited range (“ vaste
essor ”) in friendship.

Philosophy desires to tomake of all human kind one great

" family of brothers and friends; but it cannot tolerate the

most mediocre range in ambition, love, familism. * * *

* * * What means this claim of giving full range to one
passion (friendship) and reducing another (love, ambition,)
to the weakest development? It accuses God of unskilfull-
ness to claim that he has done wrong to create such and such
passions; that he ought to reduce or suppress them to one-
fourth of their intensity in order to compliment Plato or
Seneca. * * * * * It is evident that Ambition is in-
compatible with a moderate range, and that our social equi-
librists fall into duplicity of system when they desire to de-
velop friendship and to moderate ambition. These are the
two sist-ers—-the cardinal majors; they unceasingly come be»
tween each other. When We endeavor to compress one we
falsify both, so that we have only known how 110 Organize
deceitful friendships and insatiable ambitions under the
mask of moderation. (V. 473.)

[REMARK.-—-“ Deceitful friendships ” are held together by
the "cohesive power of public plunder;” and while the
“silent man” is reticent or ambiguous as to the “third
term,” the organ advocating it is hugely recipient of “ pap ”
or Government advertising]

 

WARREN CHASE AT ALLIANCE, OHIO.

On Sunday the 12th ult., this brave veteran of freedom de-

' which
were listened to with marked attention. Great power of ut-
terance, logic of argument, honesty of purpose, and earnest
advocacy of human rights, characterize this bold e_nunciator

of truth. ' _
The meeting ;was held in Haines’ hall, where the liberahsts

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of the place meet every Sunday evening, to confer upon the
radical questions of reform.

We enjoyed the company of brother Chase at the beautiful
home of Brother I-Iaines and family, where love, harmony
and kind hospitality reign, and where the virtue of a united
family is conserved by WOODHULL AND~CLAFLIN"S WEEKLY,
numbers of which lie upon the table. People will soon learn
that neither Woodhull doctrines, nor such long-time servants
of free love as Warren Chase ever bring division where divi-
sion does not already exist. The influence they shed is the
light of freedom, intelligence, and moral principle.

Brother Chase’s morning discourse began with the ques-
tions, What do you know? and How dovyou know it? His
comments upon the same showing the foolish dependence
upon belief which soon must give place to actual knowledge,
at which we arrive by reason, observation and experiment.
He broke the images at which superstition worships, and in
his afternoon lecture built upon the cleared ground the
beautiful temple of a natural religion, harmonizing with sci-
ence; showing the process of onward growth by the beautiful
law of evolution, His evening discourse, as announced, was
Historic Religion. . ‘

The following tribute to Warren Chase was read at the close
of the afternoon meeting:

The years of thy pilgrimage are marching along,
But time floats onward with thee like a song,

For the music of truth, with its rythm sublime,
With its harmonies sweet and its heavenly chime,
Ever gladdens thy spirit with freshness of youth.
Oh such is thy power, bright, beautiful truth.
Brave brother, in girlhocd’s years I have read

Of the grand reformation thy spirit has led;

‘ Life Line of the Lone One,’ bade tender tears start,
And awaked deep interest for ihee in my heart.
’1‘hy name was enrolled to lead in the van,.

As the great and the good and remarkab e man,
Who would first dare to say that woman was free
In tne realm of love where queen she must be.
Oh, womanhood owes thee deep gratitude now;
Laurels we weave for thy venerable b ow. .

Long may’st ihou live.-—humacity’s friend—-
Blight angels of love thy footsteps attend;

May ihy heart ever beat with rejoicing pride,
That the brave and the true now stand side by side.
Soon all the reforms for humanity’s good

Will unite every nation in true brotherhood;
And thou wilt rejoice thy help has been given

, To lead every soul to harmony’s heaven.

SADA BAILEY.
SALEM, Ohio, Sept. 13th, 1875.

 

Dear Mrs. Wo0dhull—Your article (August 7th) on God
deeply interested me. The whole article will help some who
seldom think on such subjects.

The Bible being a selection from ten or twenty times as

many works, by the wisest men of those ages, should be more
harmonious than it is.
' The best rules of any sacred book, if followed, would give
us heaven here. Centuries before the advent of Jesus, the
command to “love” was recorded in a book, hence Jesus was
in a mistake in calling it “‘ new.”

Radicals are not surprised that Jews were, and that Ameri-
cans, as a body, are, savages——as proved by their treatment of
each other and the blacks, and, now as ever, the Indians. But
we count it moral insanity, or something worse, to take the
writings of such a. people as an “ authorative and perfect
standard ” of faith and life for all good people and all coming
time. I have no doubt “ Isaiah ” and others did see a better
day before our race. But the percentage of truthful pro-
phecy in the Bible I am sure is less than in the writings of
Victoria 0. Woodhull and some others, including the writer.
I think Jesus failed as often. 7
' You seem to reply to us radicals as though we meant you.
I have understood you to be still with us in asserting the
bottom and more essential truth, that a book is of value
only in proportion to the truth it contains.

Your reply to “What shall I do to be saved?” had in it the
essence of all religion and all religions. I have renounced
most of the theology and doctrines of the so-called Christian
Church. I never held more sacred what still remains with
some of its members of “ pure and undefiled religion.” ‘I
may some time tell some of my best if not peculiar experi-
ences. I have stood in intellect, in spirit and in conjugal
action over what you call the “ fall,” and on what I will call
the “plane of angelic purity.” I have lived in mind with
Sweedenborg’s “ innermost angels,” and lived the love of his
“celestial angels.” He simply saw what is yet to be more
common on this earth. Hero his “ celestial” heaven is to be
realized. Of course this cannot be put on paper, much less
fully so conveyed to other minds.-

But so far as you or any one are laboring to bring men and
women on to this high, this disinterested and unselfish, this
heavenly plane on earth, mywhole soul goes with you. I
would gladly aid you all I can, be that little or more. This
planet cannot long be the home of any of us. Though born
and reared in the smoke and flames of an orthodox hell,
the “ sting ” of death left me over forty years ago. Before
that I had made my last prayer and ‘performed my last act
from the selfish motive to escape hell and reach heaven. I
have been five times at Death’s door, twice dying, once out of
the body, but not entirely separated from it. [A. J. Davis
explains such a case.—] I realized not one moment’s fear in
leaving the body through all this. The last time it was left
optional with me as to returning.
Nature’s best laws our race can come where they have health
and happiness till naturally released, it will be great glory.
Sick or well, when my work is done here and time up, I shall
bid death, which is not death to me, a thousand times wel-
come. , AUSTIN KENT.

STOGKHOLM, N. Y., August, 1875. ‘

P. S.———Friends, send for my books at your own price, if you
are notable to meet mine. A. Kmzr.

If, by obedience to.

PERTINENT QUESTIONS. ’
“Bx WARREN C_HASE..

First.—-Is commerce between the sexes a crime per se?” We
answer No, although it has been pronounced.so by the Chris-
tian Church, anci the holy priesthood of the mother Church
its holy virgins and sacred sisterhood, as well as the members
of some protestant sects, forbidden to indulge in it at all,
although it is well and extensively known that the clergy, es-
pecially, utterly disregard the rule. We say No, because it is
natural and common to man and beast, and the only method
to propagate and perpetute the species. The Christian Church,
having decided that it is a crime, a polution, and an immoral
act, proceeded to establish rules under which she would sell
the indulgence to this sin—not to priests or nuns, but to
common people, by which the race could be preserved; and
to determine who and what parties, and under what condi-
tions this sin might be committed, and the parties be forgiven.
Having thus fixed rules for and by both Catholic and Pro-
testant Church, and got the law to adopt and establish them,
they attempt thereby to regulateall sexual intercourse, and
punish all infractions upon their rules which are i wholly
based on the criminality of the act when without their sanc-
tion or a legal sanction based on their system. If it is a crime,
it is plain that the church cannot set 1 s criminality aside by
an order or induldence. If it is not a crime or a moral evil,

the church has no business to meddle with it. If not a crime, ‘

but a moral evil, the church should work, not with legal in-
struments, but with her moral power to suppress and exter-
minate it altogether, and not tamper with and extenuate it.
if it is a crime, the law should suppress it altogether, and not
license men to sin or to commit crime. If it is not a. crime,
the law has no business with it. So much for the act in itself,
or per sc.- ' 
Second.——Is this act a crime when performed by a man
upon a woman without her consent, and against her protest
and resistance? We and all others answer yes; it is a great
crime if the man has not had permission from a priest or
magistrate, and at some former time had permission to do it.
Here comesin a most important question: Can the permit
of the priest or ‘magistrate transform this crrlme into avirtue,
or into a sacred right, and destroy its evil and wicked efiect ?
We say No, and hence a rape" on a wife by her husband is
as mucha crime as if committed by one not her husband,‘
and should be punished the same. Wrong cannot be made
right by priestly sanction or permission, or criminality be
lessened by any form of indulgence or license from lawor
religion. A crime is a crime in its own nature, and this is a.
horrible one, and should be suppressed by law everywhere.
These crimes (rapes) are of daily occurrence in married life;
andnot oniyis no notice taken of them, but the church and state
and public opinion sanction them, and uphold the man, even
though, as is often the case, it produces the death of the wo-
man. Against this, as advocates of social freedom, we protest,"
and are abused by the licentious and sexual tyrants for so
doing. We ask that woman may be protected in her person
by law against any and every abuse of any man; the same in
marriage as out of it. This is leaving marriage a civil con-
tract only as between the parties, with no personal transfer
or ownership of one person by the other; so the lawwould
protect a wife as it would any male partner in business
against the attacks and assaults of the husband. Repeal the-
marriage laws and it would be so under the civil law of part-
nership, etc. _ .
Third.~——ls this act, when indulged with the consent of the
woman but against her di‘-sire and without her participation
or enjoyment, a crime? We say No, not a crime on the part

of the man, whether the parties be man and wife or not, un-'

less by some power of his she has been forced to give her
consent, when it becomes almost or quite a rape; but this in-
tercourse is a moral, social and physical QVII, and every
moral power of woman and all good men should be used to
eradicate it; and no power of priest, or magistrate, or public
opinion can turn it into anything but an evil. It is the same
in its efiects in or out of marriage. and no more justifiable:
under marriage bonds than outside them. It is, common both
in and out of marriage; out of it ‘for pay—some considera-
tion; in it for home, duty and to keep peace in the family, to
keep the man from other women, and, for a score of causes
and reasons, is submitted to by wives in all relations and
conditions of life, and is one of the greatest sources of sick-
ness, sorrow, despondency and unhappiness in married women
in our country, and probably causes more misery than all other
social evils put together. This can only be met and removed
in and out of marriage by the moral power of justice, and the
knowledge that under any circumstances it is prostitution,

and it should be treated as such by all reformers. Bobbing .

woman other share of the property, which is done to the ex-
tent-of three-fourths of her just dues, and thus securing her
dependence, causes most of this submission and prostitution
out of marriage, and also forces most girls and single women
into marriage for a home; and then lawfreligion and public
opinion all conspire to enforce this submission and prostitu-
tion in marriage bonds. This moral evil brings most of the
unwelcome births, most oi.‘ the uterine diseases, and most of
the unhappiness and misery of married women, and “hence it
is wrong, a moral evil but not a crime in the ‘sense that it
can be justly punished by law. We would thus strip sexual
intercourse of its artificial covering, and leave the “naked
truth.”

FLORENCE ll/IARRYA’l."lD (ll/lrs. Ross-Church) is said to be not
far from forty years old, and the mother of a married
daughter; but she is generally spoken of as a young lady.
She is a blonde of the pure English type, and does not look
more than twenty years old. She is said to have given up
her idea of coming to this country to read. A"

CHATEAUBRIAND said, “ Mme. Chateaubriand would not
dine later than five. I was never hungry tillseven. But we
compromised and dined at six, so that we could neither; of
us enjoy it; and that is what people call the happiness of
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If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see
death.—Jesus. I

To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the
hidden manna:-St. John the Divine.

That through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, and deliver them who
through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage.——Paul. .

The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality and without hy-
pocrisy.-—-James, iii., 17. ,

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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1875.

‘WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets
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ti 9. attention of those whom they can interest. A careful
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break-of-day, next its dawn and afterward its full meridian
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THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE;
on, THE ‘SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST.

For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship
him.——'S'r. MATTHEVV, ii., 2.

This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of
which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly
I hown in our present series of leading articles that it repre-
sents the coming ‘blending together of the inhabitants of the
earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the
establishment thereby of the universal human family. It
also represents still another and more important truth which
has not yet, been introduced, but which, defined in a few
words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself.
We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work
and as symbolizing the possession by man of the whole truth
which we hopeand trust may be shortly realized.

3 press the WEEKLi?.

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Unto the pure all things are pure ; but unto them that are defilecl and
nnbelieving is nothng pure, but even their mind and conscience is
defiled. Sr. PAUL——~T1'l‘US i., 15.

When the blind. lead the blind, both fall into the ditch.
In nothing, perhaps,~'is this-maxim more perfectly exem-
plified than in the subject that we are to consider. A class
of self -styled Christians, commonly known as the Y. M.
C. A., have been making frantic efforts in various ways"
during the past few years to overcome obscenity, and to
check the immoral tendencies that they imagine are growing
in thclhuman heart. This same class of Christians has a
societywinside of ~ itself, known as the Society for the Sup-
pression of»Vice, and it has obtained. certain special legis-
lation that gives it more extraordinary powers;than are pos-
scssedby any other classes of persons. They can arrest any-
body whom they may choose to suspect of indecency of any
kind, without any process of law, such as filing and ob-
taining an order of arrest. Its agent may go into any house,
and if he see any picture, painting or statuary that his
lewd and vulgar mind can construe into obscenity he is
armed with the power to march any person whom he may
find in charge of ‘ the house containing the objectionable
thing to jail and make his complaint afterward ; “he in the
meantime having seized upon and» carried off the offending
object as a basis upon which to ground his. action. This is
arbitrary power such as is not exercised in any other
instance‘ of misdemeanor or crime.

I/Ve need not remind-our readers of ' the efforts that this
society, under the lead of Plymouth Church, made to sup-
_ Their first onslaught upon the press
was made against us. This fact alone ought to show that
there was alarm  the camp, and that thcy feared we were
showing up the rottenness of things too rapidly to suittheir
ideas of p1'oprie1y. But after putting forth their best en-
deavor; after securing our arrest and indictment, holding
us in prison more, than a month under a process that they
never intended tobring to trial ; after a second arrest and
a second indictment, and a failure to find any law that
could satisfy honest Judge Blatchford that they had any
right to arrest and hold us, they went to Washington and
secured an amendment to the law, so that it should cover
our case; getting inserted in the statute the word paper, so
as to cover newspapers, as they imagined; afterdoing all this,
they wgre finally obliged to abandon the pursuit of us, and
they have let us severely alone ever since, although we hear
that the previously defeated instrument of the society vows
vengeance, and watches the WEEKLY as a cat does a mouse,
ready to pounce down upon it again whenever he can find
anything in its columns that looks as if it might be action-
able. ,

In the meantime he has pounced down upon the Toledo
Sun, which Mr. Lant had removed to this city, and thought
to strangle it without any difficulty at all. He kept Mr.
Lant in jail about a month, when Judge Blatchford ordered
his discharge on bail that had been previously refused.
Nor did the incarceration of the editor stop the issue of the
Sun. Their law is not quite perfect yet. This agent,

through whom this society operates, will have to go to ‘
,Washington and wheedle Congress into giving him the

power not only to arrest arbitrarily, but also to put injunc-
tions upon papers that he wishes to suppress, so that they
cannot issue during the progress of the prosecution of their
editors or proprietors. Every year they are tightening
their grasp about the throats of the independent radical
press, with the avowed intention of strangling the whole
lot when they shall feel strong enough to undertake the
job. I

But let them secure whatever legislation they may, the
WEEKLY will go on discussing the diseases and errors which
it finds in society, candidly, clearly and exhaustively. It
will not keep back anything that, in the opinion of its
editors, ought to be made public. It will hold with Paul
that the human body, as a whole or in part, is pure and
holy,-and a fit subject for polite and honest consideration
whether in the public press or on the public rostrum. It

will maintain that the organs and functions of sex are spe-

cially proper subjects to be discussed, and will consider it
to be its duty to discuss them largely on account of the pre-
vailing ignorance about them. It can and will, if, indeed, it
has not already done so, show that the causes of a very large
part of all the misery, vice and crime that exist are to be
traced to this very ignorance, and to the improper uses to
which those organs and functions are reduced; and that the
only possible way to -remedy or cure any or all of these
curses‘ to the race is to boldly and plainly point out their
causes and lay the ignorance that hides them bare to the
public gaze, so. that they may be seen and known of men
and women. It would do next to no good to go about this
in a quiet, prudish way. The attention of the whole peo-
ple has got to be aroused and their ignorance convicted be-
fore there can be any hope for better things.

body excuse himself and herself from any active efforts to
have a better state of things. «

Now, we desire to put the pointed question home to these
people who make such profuse public parade of their sen-
sitiveness on these things: Do they wish it to be understood
that they hold that the procreative organs and functions are,
in and of themselves obscene and vulgar ?
the plain issue.

pure and holy? Do they who make the pretence that they

So long as
this is not made public, so that nobody can pretend to say‘
that nobody else knows anything about it, so long will every-

Now, here is
Are they vulgar and indecent, or are they

are impure, ever stop to consider that it is by these very
organs and functions that God creates man only “ a little
lower than the angels, and bath crowned him with glory
and honor ?”—that glory and that honor being the power to
create again Apower by the exercise of which an immortal 
soul can be called into existence, vulgar! Apower that
has evolved God’s noblest and highest work, obscene !
A power that fashioned the crowning wonder of all of
God’s most wondrous works, indecentzl Perish the. thought
we say, and perish the vulgarity that makes such a thought
possible I “ . .

Penal laws even have been enacted against these parts of
the system, and nobody can mention them publicly without
somebody imagining himself or herself to be blackguarded.
N ow, is it not clear that all this is very obscene, foolish and
self-condemnatory? Paul says, in his letter to the Corinthi-
ans (xii, 23 and 24), “Upon those members of the body which
we think to be less honorable, we bestow more abundant
honor. For our comely parts have no need ; but God hath
tempered the body together, having given more abundant
honor to that part which lacked, that there should be
be no schism in the body, but that all the members should
have the same care one for another.”

The vulgarity and obscenity, then, is not in the body, but
it is in the mind and thoughts of those who make the com-
plaint about it; for if they were pure in their minds and
thoughts, that which is vulgar to them now would be pure
and holy. “To the pure all things are pure,” said St. Paul

to Titus, and Paullis good authority among these same

Christians of whom we are speaking." It requires two vul-
gar people to complete a vulgar act, since, if the party sub-
jective be pure, he Wlll see no impurity in the party objec'
‘tive. So, when any one complains of obscenity, he proclaims
his own vulgarity; for Paul also said to Titus, “But unto
them that are defiled is nothing pure, even their mind and
conscience is defiled.”

Hence, all these laws that stand upon the State and
National statute -books are lasting evidences of the shame of
‘those who urged their making and those who made them, as
well as of that of those who put them into force. No, it is not
the body that is obscene and vulgar, but it is the minds and
thoughts _of the people concerning them. “ Evil to him that
evil thinks,” is the proverb, and it is a true one. The same
holds good in the case under consideration. Vulgarity to
him who vulgar thinks. a Everything is vulgar to some
minds. There cannot be the most delicate subject spoken
about in the most delicate way without these minds being
ready to put a vulgar turn upon it. In this fact lie almost
all the causes for the misunderstanding and abuse of which '
we are the subjects. The vulgar editors have read our say-
ings and interpreted them by their own vulgar thoughts, and
with the impress of their own minds upon the thoughts,
have sent them out to their readers, until the whole country
had come to think that the social question could not be dis-
cussed save by a vulgar person and in a vulgar, way. But,
thank God, that curse is being rapidly lifted, and we begin
to be able to reach the hearts of the really pure people, and
show them where all the vulgarity about this subject really
lies, and, what is still more promising, some of the editors
begin to see their shame.

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HONESTY—VIRTUE.

The general idea that prevails‘, about honesty has pretty
nearly the same relation to its real significance that the
general idea about virtue bears to genuine virtue. In the
latter case she is considered virtuous who adheres strictly to
the form of legal marriage, whether she do so at the ex-
pense of outrage to every sentiment of her soul and feeling
or instinct of her body or not; while genuine virtue consists
of adheringstrictly to the law found written in the mind
and on the heart and in every nerve of the body, to outrage
either of which is to commit a sin against them all. So
there is a wide difference between the operations of the two
laws—that one madeby man and that one made by God-—
the former with, and the latter without, hands. But the
hold which the former kind has obtained upon the minds of
the people is so strong that the latter kind counts for almost
nothing in the economy of society. The womanwho sub-
mits herself in repugnance to the requirements of the law
and of an established custom, even when her heart yearns
and her senses instinctively bound under the promptings of
the law of God elsewhere, is the respectable member of
good society, and she shrugs her shoulders and elevates
her nose when she passes her sister woman who has ignored ,
the man-made law and yielded obedience to the law of God;
but, for all this, the latter is the virtuous woman and the
former is the other kind. ,

So in regard to the other word, he who meets all his
pecuniary obligations with punctilious promptness is called
and considered the honest man, the idea of honesty never
extending beyond or deeper than the mere matter of dollars
and cents; and the same man may have opinions, and con-
victions even, about subjects vital to the welfare of society
which he conceals if he do not deny. In general terms,
therefore, it isthose who escape the 1 penalties of .-the law
who are held to be honest men and good citizens, while every
one of such men may be the most thorough hypocrite, for to
be false to the truth that one has, or to deny or evade it when
called upon to take sides, is to be hypocritical. It is the
same now that it was-in the days of Jesus and the Apostles.
The letter of the law killeth as it did then. He who is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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legally honest may have cheated some poor woman outgof
her hardcearned pennies, and byso ‘doing become able to
meet his obligations and sustain his credit and his reputa-
tion; while another, by yielding his hand to the cry of need
or of distress from the poor and the despised may have
been prevented from meeting legal demands, and he loses
his credit and his reputation for honesty. But the world
will come some time to feel and to acknowledge that the
latter is the honester kind of a man.

Those who teach for doctrines the commandments of men
are like those of old of whom Jesus said, “Verily, they
make clean the outside of the sepulchre, but within they
are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.” It was
just such people as those whom we have described to whom
Jesus addressed these words, and were he to appear on
earth now he would say the same to those who constitute the
“ best society,” for the rule is, that -where there is the most
law and the most punctilious regard for its letter there is
the least genuine virtue and morality. This is true of all
departments of society, but in none so pertinent now as in
the marriage relation. Marriage that is legal only is a
sepulchre full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

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PERSONAL.

I which to say to_ very many who are now writing private
letters to me personally, urging me to reply to them pri-
vately regarding the great question of eternal life in the
body, that, much as I would like to oblige eachrand every
one, it is simply impossible.
every night (Sundays included), and it is all I can do to
meet my engagements, attend to the necessary business and
furnish the regular editorials for the WEEKLY. I feel,
from many of the letters that are forwarded to me from the
office, an earnest and truth-seeking influence, and should
be most happy to respond to them; but those who write
will see at once that there are limits to human possibilities,
one of which 1s the time that is required to perform certain
tasks. My time is absolutely wholly occupied, and I am
sometimes very severely taxed to prepare the regular edi-
torial matter, to which, I am sorry to say, I cannot devote
the time, attention and study that the subjects, of which I
am now treating, demand. So, friends, please be patient.
For two years I have had this great secret open to my com-
prehension, but not until within the present year was I in-
structed to begin to develop it. It is amatter that requires
time; and it .will all be revealed in due time. To-push the
unfoldment of the truth in advance of the unfoldment of the

hearts and minds of the people to receive it, would be to
hinder rather than to advance the cause. To those who are
developed into the possibility of being born into the truth,
the truth will come just as soon as it is proper that it should.
I am more anxious to give what I know to the world than
any of the world is to receive it; but as Idid not so receive
it, neither can I so impart it. This much I may, however,
repeat as often as it may be necessary: It is utterly useless for
any to think\that they want the whole truth who have not
arrived at the condition which Jesus said to the lawyer was a
necesary precedent to eternal life. Moreover,people m11st want
this new development for its own sake, and not because it is
going to bring anything to them that they desire strongly.
They must want the truth for the sake of the truth, and be

equally as willing to receive itif it take them to hell or if it I

take them to heaven. I fear there are but few who desire
the -truth in this way. Nevertheless, those" who do not
desire it in this way are not ;_ yet worthy of the great, glory
that God hath prepared for those who love Him; prepared
not as an arbitrary recompense for living, but which comes
asa natural result of living, and which can come in no other
way ; “ for there is no other Name given under heaven
among men whereby we must be saved.” So Peter taught,
and such is the truth. The great and final salvation can come
only in the way in which I have named, and it will come to
all who are thus prepared to receive it. Those who are thus
prepared are “ the elect from the four corners of the earth,”
having “the ma/rk in their foreheads.”

I have long ago shown that the human body is the temple
of God. This temple wants to be opened so that God can
come into it and take up His residencethere. I have also
given the key by which the gates into the temple must be
unlocked. I cannot unlock the gates for any. All must do
it for themselves, or else remain outside. The new Jerusa-
lem must “ come down from God, out of heaven,-adorned
as a bride prepared for her husband ; “ and,” as Jesus said,
as recorded by John (vii., 38), “ out of his belly ”' must
“ flow rivers of living water,” and not dying streams, as
now. Sin must cease, as John also wrote in his Epistle
(iii., 9), and this river of living water become’ a substitute
therefor, and “the tithes must be brought into the store-
house, that there may be meat in mine house, saith the
Lord” (Malachi iii., 10), before the blessing can be poured
out, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Add to all this the law of the Lord (recorded St. Luke ii., 23)

and the keys to unlock the great mystery which-

has been hid from the foundation of the world are pre-
sented. Language cannot be plainer.-~ There it stands,
writtendown before the eyes of all the world; -but,’being
blind,¢they~see.not; deaf, they hear not; neither do their
hearts understand. But it is only to him who overcometh,
that is, who cannot commit sin, because he is born of God,
that “ the earnest expectation of the Creator (the woman)

_Waiteth for the manifestation of the Sons of God” (Ro-

mans, viii, 19), according to the law of the Lord above re-
ferred to. Again I say, “search the Scriptures, for in them
ye” not only “think ye have eternal life,” but it is there
really. Put this and that together and the truth is the re-
sult; that truth which Jesus did not explain to Nicodemus
nor to the lawyer, but whichis the strait gate and narrow
way, in the place of that wide gate and broad way, wherein
all the world now walk; which is thattrue and acceptable
worship of the Lord in the Sanctuary of ‘the Holy of Holies
of the Temple of God. V. C. W.

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POPPING THE QUESTION.

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For the first time in the world’s history we are pleased
(and displeased) to record the "modesty of a clergyman. We
allude to the following statement of Mr. D. L. Moody,
which is taken from the New York Herald of October 8th :

“ Mr. D. L. Moody, who was here in the early part of the
Week. and who arrived in Brooklyn last night, had several
conferences with the cornmittee of ministers and laymen
who are authorized. in behalf of the churches, to make pre-
parations for his coming to labor in New York. It was the
generalimpression both of the committee and himself that
the metropolis is not yet ready for the harvest. Mr. Moody
will not begin evangelistic work in any city or place where
his services are not only asked, but welcomed. He will not
be hampered or hindered by bickerings or jealousiesamong
the churches and the ministry. His invitation to New York
has. it is said, been the least cordial of any given to him by
any city in the Union.”

As Spiritualists, we honor Mr. Moody for declining to

not think his declination or backwardness consistent with
the practice of the Great Nazarene and his disciples. New
York could not prove its need of his services better than by
its tardiness to request them, and, if his brother ministers
are backward. in coming forward, it must appear to him
that the shepherds are as scabby as the sheep.

The Bible instructs us that when the Great Nazarene was
-on earth, he did not wait to be invited to address sinners.
He conversed with some women who had not the best of
characters, viz. : Mary Magdalen and the Woman of Samaria.
He went into the Temple, which was the Wall Streéi, of
Jerusalem, and gave the money-changers astrapping with
the whip, and some think it’s a pity our modern clergy donn;
imitate his example in that particular. It was the same
with the apostles. They did not wait for the educated
heathens of Athens or Rome to invite them, but stood in
the midst of their cities proclaiming the doctrines of Christ.
We are sorry to hear that Mr. Moody fears to be hindered
by the “ bickerings and jealousies ” of the churches, and
would rather recommend him to cleanse those “ Augean
Stables ” than retire from the field. Such atask we look
upon as well worthy of the labor of an ecclestical Hercules,
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ON CONDUCTING oonrniinnons.

   

Superstition, like slavery, has in its time been a benefit
to humanity. It is better to worship a toad than to vege;

tate like the bushman of Australia, without a hope or care I

for the future. Priestcraft also has been a blessing in
former times to humanity. The poet Pope says :
“ Force first made conquest, and that conquest law;

Till superstiiion taught the tyrant awe;
Then shared the tyranny, then lent it aid,
And gods‘ of conquerors, slaves of subjects made.
She, through the rending earth and bursting skies,
Saw Gods descend and fiends infernal rise.
Here fixed the dreadful, there the blest abodes, .
Fear made her devils, and weak-Hope her Gods.
Gods, vengeful, changeful, passionate, unjust,
Whose attributes were rage, revenge and lust.
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide,
And hell was built on spite, and heaven on pride.”

But though both superstition and priestcraft may have
been usefulponce, we contend that their tlll-ClS1‘aS'[J, and
that they are now no longer needful, but, on the contrary,
are a curse to mankind.

To us the great advance of true Spiritualism mainly. con.
sists in the fact that is will operate to effect the annihilation
of both, and the Spiritual Freedom of humanity cannot be
fully established until both are rendered‘ powerless for evil.
For this reason we are grieved to see that a species of bas-
tard priesteraft is already attempting to rule many of the
Spiritual Conferences now established in our principal cities
and towns. The officers elected therein would do well to

read John Bunyan’s “God’s Temple Spiritualized,” in _

which he tells all ministers that, “ as foreigners, not Jews,
built the Temple of Jerusalem,” in that capacity they -are
“ servants not sons.” We do not hesitate further to assert
that-many of these petty cliques of officials take upon them-
selves to rule their audiences, not unfrequently dictating as
to what they shall speak, and how they shall speak it. As
most of these conferences are sustained byfees taken at the
door, we advise the public to look into this matter and
rectify it. Considering that circumstance, we maintain
that the people have rights in the conduct of such meetings
which ought to be and must be respected.

Of course order must be maintained in such assemblies,
and no personalities ought ever to be permitted. We be-
lieve that the public is always willing to submit to such
wholesome regulations. Some latitude might also be allow-
ed to over zealous Christians who sometimes assist in the
deliberations. As to the demand that partiesaddressing the
Conference should treat of matters “germane to spiritual-
ism,” that also is correct, for everything that pertains to the

welfare of humanity is included therein : that is, many

‘ justice. , We propose the following plan :

"which is well worthy of public attention.

think so ; those who do not, can hardlybe considered to be

Spiritualists.

One word more with regard to the financial department

of these Conferences. We hold that the public will sustain

lectures they desire to hear, and,‘ so believing, we maintain

that they have a right to choose the bakers that supply them
with spiritual bread. It is also necessary that the Con-
ferences should be self-supporting. Heaven help those that are
patronized, they never exist long, and ought not to exist at
all. Then there is a third party——the lecturer. Some lecturers
give their services, others are paid. Where fees are taken.
at the door this matter is easy of settlement on a basis of
First deduct the
expenses of the Conference for the use of the hall, etc.
Second—-—pay the next ten dollars or part of ten dollars taken
in to the lecturer. If the lecturer is popular there may be
more ; in that case divide the remainder between the Con-
ference and the lecturer. Approved lecturers will have no
reason to object to such an arrangement, and no lecturer
ought to be engagedjat the cost of the people, that the pub-—
lic do not like to hear. As to the subjects, these also should
“besubject to the popular decision. .

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OCULAR I-EVIDENCE.
We published lately. an open letter from Father John
Beeson, the friend of. the Indians. Let us add to it an in-

_ , , , _ ~ cident which he related, connected with his labors for them,
-preach without a proper 1nv1tat1on from those “ miserable '

_ _ - sinners” his brother clergymen, but as an Evangelist we do
I am traveling and lecturing, a '

On one occasion,
when he was revolving a plan for their benefit, the spirits
of many,Ind,ianchiefsdesired toassist him in his delibera-r
tions, and notified. him if he would sit with a writing me-
dium for an hour, specifying between three and four P. M.
of the day onwhich «hewas notified, they would be with
him, He_,di_d, so. ,There was a table in the room covered
with a figured cloth, having a centrepattern, and on the

matches. After being seated some time the spirits desired
him to give his opinion, which he did, speaking, as it were,
to vacancy. After he had done so, most of the matches
came out the box and ranged themselves in a circle, Indian;
fashion, and in’ perfect order, their points all toward the
centre of the cloth. Father Beeson counted them, and they
numbered sixty. Onefhowever, didnot enter the circle,
but remained partly on and partly off the edge of the table.
At the termination of the sittings——for he had more than
one———the names of sixty chiefs were appended to the docu-
ment given him by the medium, and he was told that the
one who could not enter the circle was a lame, Indian he
well knew in the West, who was known by the name of
Limpy. No one of the millions who have seen the simple,
candid, worthy old man, Father John Beeson, will be will-
ing, to doubt the entire truthfulness of the above statement.

ton, and was adopted, we believe, almost entire by the In-
dian Bureau. ' I

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A wonn FIN sEAson.

When J ay.Cooke& Co. were engaged in pushing out the
paper money of the United‘ States, the venerable Samuel
said that if you were to roll orbs of gold through the
country the people would frown upon them; and if asked
to accept the pewter for debts would» decline it, saying in
response: “Never; oh, give us our darling greenbacks!”
Now, howe,v-er,’ the case is changed. The money-holder
turns up his nose at the United States currency, and his
organ, the New York Herald, heads its financial reports
with the words, “RAG MONEY,” “so much value per dol-
lar,” in ragged capitals. Sometimes, however, it hits upon a
truth by mistake, as in its leading article of October 9th, in
which we find these words: I

“ The permanent issue, the only real issue, is the reform
of the Government. When Christ drove the money-chan-
gers out of the temple, He saw there was but one thing to
be done, VIZ. : to purify the house of the Lord.”

This is true, and we hope Governor Allen will imitate
His example int‘ Ohio; trusting that when this paper is
issued there will be calls for vinegar and brown paper for
very sore backs in Wall, State, and Chestnut Streets, where
our modern money-changers most do congregate.

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RESURRECTION.

 

The resurrection of the body is afiirmed in the creeds of
many orthodox Christian Churches. To some, those who
consecrate burial grounds, the allegation is profitable. In
London, where, a short time ago, funerals were monopo-
lized by the Episcopal clergy, the body of a pauper was
worth seven shill_ings and sixpence sterling, and that vested
right, for a long time, blocked the way of the reform which
demanded that all bodies should be interred outside the
limits of the city. This article is n.ot written in order to re-
buke those who believe in the resurrection of the body.
But, in these days many folks are not satisfied with one re-

surrection, they demandlmore. Macbeth’s statement is not
correct now, viz. : -

f‘ The time hath been

That, when the brains were out, the man would die, _

And there an end ”

for, in all human probability, in this" (age, he would‘ be dug

up once or twice, and ‘carted around,l,"not"for 'the"ben"efift of

mantle-piece among the ornaments was a box of lucifer"

We are also glad to add that theplan was sent to Washing‘-“

 

 

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Oct. 23, 1375.

‘survivors. This ghastly war on the graveyards rages on
both sides of the Atlantic. About three months ago, a re-
1atiV'3 had to step out into print to defend the bones of the
poet Byron from further maltreatment, (whose body, by the
bye, had originally been shipped from Greece to England)
and now, the New York Herald instructs us in the follow-
ing extract, the American public are ghouling it after the
corpse of a bard of our own country 1:

Edgar A. Poe’s leading idea concerned the relation of soul

and body after death. Both in his poems and in his stories

he gave the fancy that the dead body had a. peculiar life of
_:l_ltS own. In one of his poems he writes about liking and feel-
?/ing his home in the grave. ‘His own coflin in Westminster,
“near Baltimore, has recently been changed. The skull was
lying in the position in which the head lay when buried. The
grave clothes and all except the bones had crumbled to dust,
leaving the skeleton white and bare. The brain was in an al-
most perfect state of preservation. The cerebral mass, as
seen through the base of the skull, evidenced no signs of dis-
integration or decay, though, of course, it is somewhat di-
minished in size. The skull was intact, and the general skele-
33011 W38 In as 20061 a condition as an anatomical preparation
in a doctor’s oflice.

We look upon all this work as the remains of the worst
feature of Egyptian civilization, and feel grateful to think
that now those ancient malefactors are being thoroughly
punished for their folly, by having their mummy pits dese-
crated, and the millions of occupants therein exhumed,
chopped up, and usedas fuel for the modern steam-engines
which ply through the land of the Pharoahs.

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THE LECTURE SEASON.

Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Clafiin will receive
applications to lecture anywhere in the ‘United States.
They "will go into the field early, and will fill engagements
in Various parts of the country as their regular trip shall
bring them into its respective parts. They will lecture upon
‘the following subjects: ~

The Mystery of the Sealed Book.

God, Christ, Devil.

The Garden of Eden.

‘The Two Worlds.

Inspiration and Evolution, or Religion and Science.

The Human Body the Holy Temple.

Christian Communism. _

’ The True and the False Socially.

The Destiny of the Republic.

”The Principles of Finance; and
I The Rights of Children.

The first seven of these subjects form a regular course,
and are a clear and comprehensive argument, establishing
beyond refutation the new Biblical Revelations, and cover
the whole ground of the Sealed Mystery.

Applications for the course, or for single lectures, may be
made to their P. O. Box 3,791, N. Y. City, where all letters
should be addressed that are not otherwise specially ordered.

Mrs. Woodhull speaks in McCormack’s Hall, Chicago,
Friday, October 15; and will then probably visit Aurora,
Ill., Oct. 18; Ottawa, Ill., Oct. 19; Joliet, Ill., Oct. 20;
Logansport, Ind., Oct, 21; Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 22; Terre
Haute, 1nd,, Oct. 23; Indianapolis, Ind", Oct. 25; Rich-
mond, Ind., Oct. 26; Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 27; Toledo,
0., Oct. 28; Sandusky, 0., Oct. 29; Cleveland, 0., Oct. 30.

MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD.
COMMENTS‘ on THE PRESS.
From the Argus, Racine, Wis., Oct. 2d, 1875.

Mrs. Woodhull, accompanied by her daughter, and Tennie
C. Clafiin, her sister, were in this city last Saturday and Sun-
day. On Saturday evening she lectured in Belle City Hall.
Subject, “The True and False Socially.” Owing to the fail-
ure of the bill-poster to post her bills and streamers, she was
very poorly advertised, and but few knew that she was to
lecture. Notwithstanding, she had a fair and very respect-
able audience. Much against her ‘wish she consented to
repeat the lecture on the next evening (Sunday). Although
the only knowledge the public had that she was to lecture on
Sunday was a small bill-board at the Hall door, announcing
the fact, her audience was more than trebled. N ot one in the
audience had ever heard her before. The more timid portion
had their misgivings as to whether the lecture would be pro-
per to bear, but We noticed that from that class, many of
whom were mothers as refined and conscientious as Racine
can boast, were the first to express their approbation and
applause in no unmistakable manner. We cannot better
describe her personal appearance than by adopting the "fol-
lowing, from the Cincinnati Comniercial, in reference to the
same lecturer:

“Somehow or other, Mrs. Woodhull, as she stood there
dressed in plain black, with flushed face, gleaming eye, locks
partly disheveled, upraised arm, and quivering under the fire
of her own rhapsody, reminded me of the great Rachel in
some of those tragic or fervid passages in which the domin-
ating powers of her nature and genius were displayed in their
highest effect. She seemed at moments like one possessed,
and the eloquence-which poured from her lips in reckless tor-
rents swept through the souls _of the multitude in a way
which caused them to burst, every now and then, into up-

roarious enthusiasm.”
Mrs. Woodhull will probably return here within a few

iweeks or months, and we predict that Belle City will not be

large enough to hold her audiences.
Next week we will give a synopsis of her lecture as delivered

at Belle City Hall. V

 

From the Advocate, Racine, Wis., Oct. 2d, 1875.

1 I Without endorsing all the theories of Mrs.Woodhull, it can

be said, in justice to her, that her lectures in this city were

among the best ever delivered here. She dwelt particularly
upon the evils of the social life, and society in general, which
may not have been far out of the way.

 

[From the Telegraph (Kenosha, Wis.) Sept. 30, 1875.]
THE LECTURE.

Mrs. Woodhull’s subject was “The True and the False
Socially.” She commenced her lecture by giving the oft-
repeated quotation, “ Westward the star of empire takes its
way.” She traced the onward march of this star, which car-
ried civilization with it, from the extreme Orient to the ex-
treme Occident—from its birthplace in India. and China,
millions of years before time, according to the Christian
reckoning , westward through its many advances, till it made"
its last and gigantic stride across the heaving and rolling
breast of the Atlantic, to find a resting-place in America.
In all these ages past what peoples have died out—blotted out
of existence by degeneration—the unwritten histories of the
oriental ruins or mound-builders of this continent do not
tell us.

Then she launched boldly forth upon the tide of extem-
poraneous eloquence, hurling fierce invectives at the false
modesty that will not let society discuss the basic ques-
tions of sociality. She said that the true virtue is intel-
ligent discussion of these questions, and Want of virtue is
what is suppressing it. She (Mrs. W.) had been abused,
hooted from one end of the land to another, because she
thought that woman, as woman, should own . her own body.
[Applause] That she ought to say when she will become a
mother and when she will not. I don’t believe in low ideas.
Those who have low ideas are those who have not virtue
enough to talk upon this subject without blushing, when
there is no cause for blushes except their own want of virtue.
Talk of Free Love-—there is’ no other love but free love.
God’s love is free——hei,rains upon the good and bad alike——al1
love is free, and all ‘else is enforced lust. When men are
required to be as pureiinheart and person as women, instead
of being rich, societyfwill be improved. When the young
are tauglitithe laws of life and taken into the heart and con-
fidence of parents theworld will become more virtuous. No
one has loose ideas when discussing the ways for improving
stock. In the fine art galleries of the old country where are
statues of men and Women, true to nature, no fig leaves,
there are no loose ideas among the visitors. Ladies and
gentlemen pass along without blushing, because there is
nothing to blush for. One of the guides told me there never
were any ribaldry there; no improper remarks or allusions;
and but seldom apparent shock to the visitor. Occasionally
an American woman would put her hand, to her face, but
would always leave room enough to look between the fingers.
[Applause], The people who dare not discuss these subjects
are the vulgar, the impure, the ignorant and the vile. All
this vulgarity, impurity, ignorance and vice must be eradi-
cated by the process of evolution, through discussion, vir-
tuous habits, education and intelligence.

WANTED.

Dear Weekly-—-I thought I would pen a few items which I
wou1d'like to see brought about in connection with the liberal
movement. First, I would like to see the WEEKLY arranged
so that it would leaf from left to right like a book. It would
be so much more get-at-able. Secoifd, I would like to see a
Bible translated according to the new light which-is now
being shed upon the Scriptures from the columns of the
WEEKLY. Third, I would like to see Warren Chase nomi.
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the Presidency in. 1876. Fourth, I would like to know that
there would be a hall in Philadelphia next summer where
liberals of all shades could meet, and exchange photographs,
books, ideas, etc. The fifth improvement would be a physio-
logy for our common schools, which would teach the anatomy
and functions of the sexual organs with asmuch accuracy as
they now teach those of the heart or lungs.

And another word with regard to the Centennial. I dis-
like to hear women of advanced ideas claim that our coming
Centennial means nothing to them. Liberty is not gained by
one bold stroke, but step by step we approach the goal.‘ It
was a step toward liberty when our ancestors left Europe,
another when they proclaimed, “No taxation without rep-
resentation.” Another when we did away with distinctions
on account of color. And we have several other very im-
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mutual healthful relation between the sexes.

BLOOMINGTON, 111.

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THE PROBLEM OF LIFE.
(From the Derrick, Oil City, Pa.) ‘

After reading a synopsis of Theodore Titon’s lecture we
cannot help thinking that while he was writing Mrs. ‘Wood-
hull’s life she was writing his lecture. Tilton’s closing words
are: “There was aday when woman was considered to have
no soul, when she was regarded as the incarnation of sin. To-
day it is better, it is true, but let a woman become tainted
by improper intimacy with this or that man and she is un-
doubtedly ostracised and despised, while her destroyer goes
free and is honored. The problem of life requires adifferent
state of afiairs, and in this respect woman must make the
initial movement; she must require men to be as virtuous, as
delicate, as noble as men require women to be. This will help
settle the question of the “ problem of life.” Some think this
world is all there is, and, so believing, go out of existence. I
believe they are wrong. Let us do the best We can here; be
honest, virtuous, triie, and we shall be prepared for the next
world, and then will the problem of life be solved.”

[From the Christian Um'ori.]
Superintendent Leach, of the Providence public schools,
is among the fipst of the teachers who are following where
physiologists have led. He says: “To educate the mind
when the body is in a nervous, feeble condition is a fruitless

and useless task. 1Th_e_first thing to be sought is a sound
body with physical vigor. This should take precedence of

everything else; without this, any acquisition can be of but ,

little avail.” We wonder if some prominent but worn-out
clergyman, statesman, lawyer, or editor cannot be found
who will make up a list of the frightful examples of the vio-
lation of this rule? Such a list as could easily be made up in
the United States would be startling enough to move school
committees and even parents to energetic endeavors for

reform.

IT speaks gloriously for woman that the greatest achieve-
ments and events of England have occurred during the reign
of her queens. Under the reign of Elizabeth the Spanish
Armada, was destroyed, and Shakespeare appeared, to say
nothing of Spenser and Bacon. In Anne’s reign Blenheim
was fought, Gibraltar acquired and the United Kingdom
established. Everybody knows that under Victoria England
has most likely reached the acme of power and prosperity.

IN our politics the interest of property is preferred before
all others. National legislation almost invariably favors
capital, and not the laboring hand. No political institutions
check the authority of wealth. It can bribe and buy the
venal; the brave it can sometimes intim_idate or starve. We
have often been warned against the perils from forts and
castles and standing armies. But the power of consolidated
riches, the peril which accumulated property may bring upon
the liberties of an industrial commonwealth, though for-
midably near, as yet is all unknown, all unconsidered, too.
Already the consolidated property of one-eightieth part of
the population controls all the rest.——_Theodore Parker.

 

THE address of the author of Economic Science referred to
under-the heading of “ Good News,” by Lois Waisbrooker, is
Joel (not Gael) Dinsmore, Concord avenue, Summerville,
Mass. -

 

MRS. TILTON and her mother, Mrs. Morse, are living at a.
house on Madison street, Brooklyn. They had a. kind of a
house-warming there on Wednesday night, at which the Ply-
mouthites appeared in force, and a sympathetic purse of $400
was subscribed to Mrs. Tilton. Donations of crockery and
other necessaries are being made, and doubtless the family
will be comfortable. Thursday Mrs. Tilton went to Norwalk
to meet her children, Alice, Carroll and Frank, who are re-
turning from schoolat Washington, Connecticut. Miss Flor-
ence Tilton went to meet them at the Forty-second street
depot. The result was that Alice went with her mother, and

the boys—Ralph include.d—went to their father.——New Y orh ‘

Star.

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Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Address to the
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Chap. 1.—-Rival Claims of the Saviors.
Chap. 2.—iVlessianic Prophecies.
Chap. 3.—-Prophecies by the figure of a Serpent.
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of the Gods.

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Chap. 10.—~T.l1e Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble
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Chap. l1.—-Christ’s Genealogy. '
Chap. 12 ——'l‘he World’s Saviors saved from Destruc-
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Chap. l6.——Sixteen Saviors Ci-ucified.

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Chap.°z8.~Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin.

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Chap. 36 ~Philosophical Alisurdities of the Doctrine

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Chap. 3‘7.—Physiological_Absurdities of the Doctrine
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Chap. 39.——The Scriptural View of Christ_’s Divinity.

Chap. 40.~—A Metonymc View of the Divinity of Jesus

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(‘ha »I:142.—-Christ as a Spiritual Medium. . _
Chap. 43.——Conversion, ltepentance and “ Getting Re-
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Chap. 44.~The Moral Lessons of Religious History.
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Ed. Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated.

From Our Home Hygienic Institut if 3" '
Y., Sept. 1st, 1875. 6 Q ’ ansvlue’ N‘
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STATIONS. Express. Egfézgiss 7 STATIONS. E~"3P7'€<9-9-

, . N_  .  3.30 A. M. 10.45 -A. M. Lv 230 Street N. Y ...... .. 0.45 1». ix. 
 §‘li0ai§itl§:i$St,sti'eet.‘«;--, . . . . . . . .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “4Chamber_s Street . . . . . . . .. (7.00  , 
“ Jersey Citv.....-.....--‘------ 9-15 “ V -11-'15 “ “ Jersey 0113)’ - - - - - - -  -"7-20 “ 3 V
.. H-0,.,,*eu5vme _______ _ _‘;;~,  : 8.30 “ ;1.50 “ “T-Hornellsville  .-.-r . . . . .. 7.40 3 JZ’:cm-es-=;.
“ Buifalo . . . . . ' . . . . . _ . .  12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ _\l3u/fiEalo._....].3.    1. 950 -*-~V~
iv §“:§§€§l°“ B“dg°"‘:f:::: ‘tilt ‘‘=«’"' 3:32 Pu M’ i:liiSi‘;f.’.’iil‘§§.‘T‘T..?T.?f’.:::::: 2:55 -- 5 0.24.0“?
.3 Lg,,,,,,,, """_‘_'fjjjjj__,_,,, 5.35 “ 5.55 “ , ‘—“LOIi'dOI1 ...... ..‘ ........ .. 5.55 “ § 2.35 a._ hi.

~* i)etr0it.'.'.'.'.'.'I ..........  9.40 “ 10.00 “ - ‘‘ Detroit .......... '1' '10-00 “ I 3-00 T.

at Jackson _ _ _ _ _  ________ __ 1':2.15 r. M. 1.00 A. M. “ Jackson .............  1.00 A‘; M.; 13.30 ~

or Chicago . _ _ . _ . _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ,_ ’8.00 “ 3300 “ Z,“ C_h1cago.....» . . - . . . . . . . . ..  0.45 p. ID.
 5.:-‘.0 530;. 11.50 A. M. Ar Milwaukee ........... 
Ar Prairie chi Uliein...., . _ . . . .. $8.55 i-.'ii.  ,, A: Prairie nu Cliein . . . . . . ..  
Ar La  ii.50 P. M. 7.05 A. M Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 
 ; 0.15 P. ii; ‘ Ar St. Paul ......   7.00 A. M. __
‘A, 5+ 10,115 J .  8.15 A. iii.  Ar St. Louis..' . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M.

..    _,,,__,..5.40 P. M.  _ Ar Sedal1a.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A.M.

 . . . . , . . . .. 8.00 “  “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . , . . .. V8.00 “

“Galveston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..,-10.45 “  ,“ Galveston . . . . . . . . . .  10.00 “ _w_d__

~ '~ v, ~'v’ ' . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. Ar Bismarck....., ......... .. 12.01 B. M. 
AZ{(}3g(1)$lr:1£1{;l:1kS .................... .. 5.00 A. M. “Columbus ......  6-30 “ --
"" Little‘-Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .._._,,7.-30-P. M.  “Little Rock . . . . . . . - - - -  
?-*<—~  . - '
"'”-"‘ -‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.'0 A. 11-  Ar Burlington ......... .  7.00 P. M.
5*? difiiiitgton ...............  11.30 P..M-  " Omaha ................ .. 7.45 A. ii.
.5    “-~Cheyenne .............  12.50 P. M.
 -- "“‘O e  ....  45.30 ii
at  “‘ S&I1'Fl'8.11CiSc0 .....  8.30 “___ #_
Ar ilalesburg ....  . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M-  ,-Galesburg .. 4.45 P“ M. .
‘~ uincy ..................  -ii. -“ .  , Qumcey  9-45
“St Joseph ................ .. 10.00 is - .. “ St.Josei>h_--.  8-10 A- M
“ Kansas City .............. .. 10.40 P. M.  “ Kansas 01ty- .....  9-25 “
“ Atchison .................. .. 11.00 “  .“.Atch1son .............. .. 11.17 “ 
i- Leavenworth .............  12.10 “  "' Leavenworth.... ...... .. 12.40 noon- 
.s.Denve,__ ‘ _ ' _ _ _ _ _ , , , , _ . .  7.00 A.M. “Denver..   {

[fl‘hrOugh Sleeping Car Arrangements

. .--D E f om ‘Jersey City ‘(daily eitce t Sundayj’. with Pulln_ian’s Drawi_ng—Room ‘Cars
.ar3l1(?oi§Ln:‘etin agt: Sifggfgggioii Bridge with 1>.ii11xiia_in’s Pa, a_,ce_.S1eepi31g Cars, arriving at Chicago 8-00 D-
the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there.

._ ' 5 C't d il , 'th Pullman.’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to
Cl'i7i§ggI:)' V1;lth(]§E1§2fiEI:1g%feaSrSrif5l?1I;1 ggggyat 18?00( aa: 132., Wilving passengers ample time for breakfast and take A
the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and outhwest. . . I .

CONNECTIONS or ERlE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES on

Michigan Central & Great _Western Railways.

At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne.

At iilamilton, with branch for, Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover.

At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations.

At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway.

At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an
daily line of steamers from there to Clevelaniizl. f P t H B 11 Grand Tnmk Ran a A1 D .

~ ' ' ' ‘ or uron ranc w . so e
troll‘? §j).):FEirI?;t:§5Wfig.111{{]3) fiiiglii %nMR1.vvP9t].1]t{::>e£1lz<§twzva.'r?1yaii)d. intermediate stations. ‘Also Detroit ,& Bayy City R. R.
Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. . to Toledo.
. At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc.
‘ At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale & Eel River _R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Banker’s, Waterloo
Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapolis.

At Jackson, with Grand River Vallev Branch, for Eaton Ra ids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncla, Pent-
water, and all intermec_iiate.statlo_nS. Also, with Air Line for omer, Nottowa, Three_RiverS and Oassopolis.
,«,_1,,o with Jack, Lansing &: Saginaw Branch, for Lansing Owosso, Saginaw, Wenoua, Standish, Crawford
and intermediate stations. Also with_Fort Wayne, Jack  Saginaw  R.‘ 1'01‘ Jonesville, Waterloo, Fort
Wiiyne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie &_Cm. R. R. to Cincinnati.

At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R. -

' ' . Junction South Haven etc. Also with G. ids& 1nd.
:1 i€f‘i5x7adl§1nii3§h§V éiilésifitlglmlgdiftré ]:l)1:£T1§g1E,S:t ° glso with Branch of L. S. is M. R. R. Rap

sit Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. I —‘

At Niles, with South Bend Branch. ._

- At New Buii-alo, with Chicago & Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwatur and

Ntcl‘1’i.iedl23.~te stations. 2

1 “At Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Pem & omen; B. 3. Also with Louisville, New Albany & Chi-

“-‘:-‘=’° 1f'L‘“,% . with Joliet Branch to Joliet.
A“ 3’ "" \ with all railroads diverging. {

At Chicago, , \____

 3 - ' - VALUABLE DISCOVERY.-«Dr. J . P. Miller, a
. . \  E R practicing. physician at 327 Spruce street, Phila-

T g. A  . delphia, has distgovered that tile ‘eixtiiact ofhcranlbilerries,

, A  '  ' ' an hemp com ined ‘cures ea ac e, eit er iiourz,

Cured Vvlthout tfité fe or Paul‘ dyspeptic, nervous or sick headache, neuralgia and
~ ' nervousness. This is a triumph in medical z.;he:iiis1ry,

1 .    ‘  d uff S all Ove the county are 0'33-S2-i  l;<--'
Q   I  ::ll18.il.s Hgieifre a.!i:Sl;l}'11:.D. pi(11,1?;_i_-th5'.)10[CeI1ESL  1l(§io:<:.:]’l‘llaii
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Express for Harrisburo‘. Pittsburgh, the West and
South, with Pullman Palace Cars attached, 9:30 A. M.,
5 and 8:30 P. M: Sunday, 5 and 8:30 P. M. ’ ‘ ‘

For Baltimore, Washington and the South, Limited
Washington Express of Pullman Parlor cars. daily,
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aiyl, 91’. M. »
xpress for Philadel hia, 8:40, 9:30 A. M., 12:30, 3,
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For Newark at 6:30, 7:20, 7:40, 8, 9, 10, 11 A.

M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:30, 5, 5:20. 5:40, 6, 6
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2:30,3,:-10, 3:40,4:10. 4 :30, ‘4 6, ,
8:10,,-10 P, M. and 12 night. S nday, 5:20 11

For Woodridge, Perth Ambo , and South Amboy,
(Sand 10 A..M., 2:30. 4:50 and 6 . M.

For New Brunswick, 7:20 and 8 A. M., 12 M.
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~'For East Millstone, 12 noon, 3:10 and 4:30’P~. M.
’ For Lambertville and Flemington, 9:30 A. M., and

P. M; :
FLEET Philllpsburg and -Belviderc, 9:30 A. M.,’ 2 and

I For‘B0rdentown, Burlington and Camden, 7:20 and
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' ' For Freehold, 7:20-A. M., 2-and 4:10 P.—M-. : -

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A WIDE AWAKE SPIRITUALISTIC &
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’ Prominent among the Reforms advocatedin H"ULL’S
CRUCIBLE are the following: 1
1. Reform in Religion, such as shall do away with
many of the outward forms. and restore the power of
godliness. A ' 7
2. Reforms in the Government, such as shall do
away with the rings,.cliques and . monopolies, and
all matters concerning the government of the people
into the hands of the people.

labor, such as shall secure to labor, the producer of
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. Reforms regulating the relations of the sexes to
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