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“MISTAKEN AFFINITIES ”——A REVIEW.
T BY HELEN NASH.

One of the hardest things for a woman to bear——a woman
who has in some degree learned wisdom and gotten under-
standing—is th_e assumption of the ordinary masculine mind
concerning “ Woman’s Sphere.” A woman may be supposed
to know something of the needs and capacitiesof her sex
after having given to the subject earnest and careful thought
and such time as the heedless of her sex devote to a false and
fatal adornment (?) of their persons for the delectation of the
weak and foolish of the opposite sex; for there are weak and
foolish men and boys just’ as prominently predominant as
weak and foolish women and girls, and considering the ad-
vantages in resource of the male sex over the female ’tis a sad
comment on the masculine capacity that such is the fact.

There are some few and most rare men who can write and
talk about womanhood without offending the instincts and
intelligence of those of the sex who do know something of
the theme. But they are men who set manhood and Woman-
hood side by side, not one sex under the feet of the other
with a vain assumption of superiority for themselves and a
dogmatic‘ dictum for women; they are men who draw for
women no offensive arbitrary lines stamped with the Social
Seal, but who rather regard womanhood from its possibilities
in justice and in equity, not from the standpoint of miserable
effects of miserable causes. A

When the ordinary man who dabbles in an ink-stand and
pours forth his fulminations in our popular periodicals gets
upon his society legs and views the opposite sex with his so-
cial eye-glass, womanhood is sure to be judged, but whether
wisely, tolerantly and in a spirit of candor and fairness I
leave it to women of heart, soul and mind to determine; for
such women know well enough that the bombastic egotist,

’ who draws an orbit for the sex to revolve in, knows just

nothing at all ofhis theme beyond stale platitudes and an-
cient maxims worn thread-bare and exploded—rendered
obsolete for the use of brains and common sense.

In the N. Y. Times, of Sept. 5. there appeared an article tak-
en from the Saturday Review and headed M'tstalcen Ajﬁmties,
which title, after a careful perusal of the whole column of
solid matter following it, I failed to see the relevancy of. T_o
the general reader said article would doubtless appear very
learned, quite profound, extremely‘ analytical, of fair and
logical proportions; for the tout ensemble of the entire effu-
sion wears the peculiar air of condition common to articles of
its class‘ gotten up to pass current in “ high-toned ” peri-
odicals. ' . " V

“Ah! my young ladies, what a showing up of womankind
was there!” methinks I hear ‘some commonplace masculine
general reader exclaim, with that gusto characteristic of male
vanity and satisfaction. “ There’s a man, girls, can tell you
just what you look like, just where you are drifting and just
what you need to keep you in proper check and trim! Look
out how you deport yourselves before him, for he turns you
inside out, girls, and reads you like a book 1”

Well, Mr. Podsnap, perhaps you can make the “girls ”
swallow that, but not awoman who has come toany just con-
clusions concerning the needs and capacities of her sex.
Women can be just ’ toward men who manifest any sense of
justice toward them. It makes no difference how candid
and fair in tone a man’s article on women may appear on the
surface, if it be ﬁlled with bigotry and prejudice and egotism
and masculine assumption in all its undercurrent; if it be
based upon false premises and erroneous deduction drawn
from social fallacies, the sha should be shown up for what
it is worthintrinsically. Men who presume to draw the lines
for women from old and disappearing standpoints, unmind-
ful of possibilities and unconscious of equity, deserve to be
9‘ well shaken before taken.”

Women who think know as well as any._Jenkins who ever
scribbled that modern girlhood is a sham and ashame—I say
nothing of modern boyhood——and women know, too, what
common men persistently ignore,that womanhood, innate, is
not responsible for its modern phase; they know the false
social system is alone responsible for the vitiated womanhood
of to-day; for that “blurring of the lines of demarkation ”
so lamented by the writer in the Saturday Review. All
thatis decried in girls and women of the present day is but

the out-cropping of that ignorance which passes for inno-

nence, and which renders womanhood incapable of discern-

iment and keeps-it the foot-ball of society, the jest of blase

men of the world, the badly managed theme of masculine
writers for popular periodicals.

The remedy for the evils that drag womanhood under the
contemptuous notice of ordinary men does not lie, as all such
men suggest, in remanding woman back to a past period of her
development, when our “ grand-mothers” were so celebrated
and revered. No! it lies in letting into her soul more light,
more knowledge; it lies in setting her more ﬁrmly on her
womanly feet; in getting her into an equitable self-poise,
enabling her at all times, under all circumstances, to com-
mand the respectful consideration of men, not because of
her weakness and her inferiority, but because of her strength
and -equality. i " ” ' ‘ ’ *3 l

Women have learned just enoughin these days to prove
the axiomatic truth, thata little knowledge is a dangerous
thing; they have taken in just that shallow draught that
does intoxicate the brain. Wisdom is Liberty, but knowl-
edge is not wisdom till we have drunk deep at the Pierian
spring. As with a little knowledge, so with a little liberty.
Women to-day are just far enough let loose from “ old-fash-
ioned ” restraint to mistake liberty for license, ﬂippancy and
brazen impudence for knowledge and independence, and to
make shallow thinkers and timid people think womanhood
is going to destruction; hence the puerile efforts of the gen-
eral man to give woman a backset.

There are minds so constituted that the dimness which
ever enshrouds inﬁnite possibilities, frightens, as the dark

does a child, and sets them, shrinking, back into old condi-_

tions. Few are so rarely gifted as to press faithfully on in
the dimness that ﬁlls the pathway with dangers unseen.
Those faltering souls that look back upon Sodom are legion.
Only unfaltering zeal born of truth preserves the faithful.

Those women and girls who are the most conspicuous ex-
amples of the strictures of the_modern Jenkins, are not ex-
amples of what we may expect if womanhood is emancipated
from its social lies and forms, and free scope given
to all its powers and possibilities. Neither are the
possibilities of manhood thoroughly tested until the
full ‘capacity of womanhood is developed. The ig-
norance that is imposed upon woman for innocence, the re-
straints that hem her in and hedge her about, are a much
greater drawback to womanhood than men stop in their
headlong career to) estimate. The establishment of equity
between man and woman, the blotting out of all arbitrary
“lines of demarkation,” can alone bring them into harmo-
nious relation and recognition, can alone correct the false
liberties of men that lead to license, the fatal restraints of
women that result in incapacity.

The rare type of womanhood that has in some degree got
into self-poise is not the type complained of in the article in
question. She who represents the rare type is never
forward, bold nor offensive; it will not take the most
obtuse man long to learn her status, for she soon takes the
measure of him; and very soon the common man begins to
comprehend where he stands with that woman, and he gets
out of her way perhaps with a shot in the back.

Such a woman does not fear men; not because she has not
got sense enough to know that “men are mighty onsartain,”
but because she never doubts her capacity to “paddle her
own canoe ;” and she never fails to impress an intrusive and
obtrusive masculine with that fact. There are men, de-
spite the “great discernment” of the sex, who, nevertheless,
sometimes fail to trace the “lines of demarkation” when
those lines are not at all “blurred,” on the principle that
fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

To sum up the entire matter for the beneﬁt of all assuming
and superior lords of creation: modern girls are ‘quite good
enough for modern boys,.and modern womanhood is not
in any immediate danger of contaminating modern man-
hood which cuts a sorry ﬁgure when it -presents its claim

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to take into its doubtful bosom a girl or a woman who has not
had the “bloom rubbed off before the fruit was ripe.” My
dear sir, where would you go for your certiﬁcate if women
were as particular about the bloom on the male apple?

That little matter of the “ bloom on the fruit” is a fruitful
source of many mistakes. Men as well as women are such
wretched victims of social fallacies that that ignorance which
is the greenness of the fruit, is gobbled without question;
and men marvel not when the core of the unripe apple sticks in"
their throats. Gentlemen, learn wisdom and get understand-
'ing, so that in your frantic eﬂorts after self-gratiﬁcation you
will at least cease clubbing trees where the apples are green.
All these arbitrary “lines of demarkation,” allthis assump-
tion of men over women but lead to perplexities and inhar-
monies, while they rob both sexes of their equitable birth-‘
right, cramp manly and womanly capacity, resulting in all
the ills that ﬂesh is heir to. One sex must complement and
, counterpart the other in equity which is the divine justice
of wisdom and understanding.

Men are equally sufferers with women while foolish and fa-
tal. customs warp boyhood and girlhood into the abortive
manhood and womanhood of the present “ highly civilized
and reﬁned era.” The true balance is in a, jeopardized state.
Only the light of knowledge guided by wisdom and under-
standing, the equitable and eternal male and female princi-
ple, can put men and women into self-poise and, conse-
quently, into harmony with themselves first, when, as a nat-
ural result, harmony with each other must follow.

ANNIHILATION.

There are four things in the universe each of which is of it
self, in its order, inﬁnite in extent and inﬁnite in duration,
none of which can exist without all the others; indeed,
three cannot exist without the other one as you will‘ see by
analysing each and all. These four things are, viz.,sMatter,
Time, Space and Intelligence. “ i

butes which in turn are each inﬁnite in extent and in dura-
tion. To intelligence belongs life, or the attribute life princi-
ple. At this point intelligence, as developed through the hu-
man organism, takes note and makes record thereof. Thus
we ﬁnd that life produces motion, motion produces change,
change producesfprogress”,progress produces humanity. Hu -
manity is the plane upon which westand to comprehend and
apply the forces in nature, which nature embraces all these
four things or principles; and it therefore follows that he who
comprehends and applies all the forces in nature, in harmony
with each and all, is master of the situation, thereby con-
quering the last enemy to the human race, which is bodily
death. * i e
To arrive at this completion orperfection an inﬁnite stage
of progression must have been passed, following in the order
of evolution from the lowest to the highest; the smaller and
weaker giving place to the greater and stronger as
well as passing into new forms out of _ the former,
which was less reﬁned or advanced. Thus we see
the mastodon, with all the animals of the carbon-
iferous period, are to-day extinct. Yet they were and are
the basis of our present animal as well as our human exhibit.
The inferior gives place to the superior, and in its particular
identity, or individuality, becomes extinct or annihilated.
Thus the lower animals, not having suﬂicient of- the eternal
forces in nature embodied in their present formation, do not
perpetuate themselves after death only as they are assisted
by the order of man, which is above them, and whq in his
individuality possesses so much of the eternal essence, or
soul of the whole, as to retain or attract some of théelements
which preserve or obtain a partial, it not full existence after
death. Thus, such higher order of humans may, from time to
time, aid the lower animals to recover a consciousness on the
other side of death, but, probably, not to remember to any
great extent ;the events of. this earth life; less, doubtless,
than what they seem to remember of the yesterday of this
life while passing through it. ~
“ The phosphate of the bones of animals,” says Prof.
Mapes, “is a. good fertilizer and food for plants, but the p‘h’6s-
lphate of a stone is comparatively worthless as a fertilizer, al-
though the chemist can ﬁnd no differencein -the phosphates,
which shows that the element in the -stone had not passed
through the superior or higher order sufficiently to become
-endowed with the power to impart food to the higher, when
this lower is reduced to its elemental condition; and that

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elemental property found in the stone and the animal alike
becomes as it passes through and upward into the higher
possessed with an endowment not found in the lower,
but peculiar to the higher, which higher endowment
of property cannot be recognized or made« cognizant to
the lower order. Thus man, in" his present and spir-
itual condition of endowment, makes a complete link,
connecting the animal and the human- together, both here
and on the other side of death; but that link does not prove
the complete immortalization of the human any more than
it proves the completed immortalizati.on of the animal or
stone, in the sense of identy or individuality; and as a large
per cent. of the human is as low in the attributes of justice
and harmonization, as an individual exhibit, as are manyof
the animals, therefore, preserving the relative position of
the a link or chain in the progress of the manifestations of,
matter, the great body of the human race are, relatively, in
the scale where the higher animals are, and have as little
power to perpetuate themselves on the other side as the ani-
' mals have; and as the lower is in the order of development
absorbed or utilized for the higher, it follows that all the
human race, which have not sufﬁcient of the eternal essence
of rimmortal life within them, will become food for the
higher, and thus fulﬁll the Scripture, which says that “ to him
that hath shall be given, and to him who hath not shall be
taken away even that which he hath.”

Indeed. absorption is taking place on this side of the grave
to a manifest degree; and as that absorption becomes com-
plete, the individual loses his or her identity.

N ow. in these latter days, when the great battle of Gog
and Magog is raging, and the wheat is being separated. from the
chaﬂ’, and the sheep from the goats, the roof is being taken from
the top of the house, and all our conditions are being exposed,
those of uswho cannot stand the reﬁning ﬁre andexposure to
the blaze and ﬂame of truth,must necessarily be destroyed both
here and on the other side, and those of us who understand
and apply the forces of nature in harmony with the highest
reﬁned condition of our planet will survive, and those of us
who cannot will be as effectually burned up and annihilated
as the consumption of matter by amaterial ﬁre. This last
blaze of light and truth, which is coming now to the earth,
Will change our material bodies, and those of us who can
stand the change will become immortal here and never taste
of death; while the spirits on the other side, who can pass
through the same ﬁre, will be our partners on this side,
clothed with the garments of new and immortal life.

This is the law of evolution, not only of matter, but of mind
through matter. No matter is lost; it only changes; so no
intelligence is lost: but the manifestations and forms of mat-
‘G1’ are constantly changing, putting on higher forms, and as

ligence makes its manifestations through matter, it fol‘
lows that when the instrument is changed, the manifestations
of inteltigence change to correspond with the instrument;
and although you can see the connecting link between the
higher-instrument and the former lower ._instrument, yet the
lower instrument. is deceased and has given place to the
higher. So with intelligence, organized into identity through
the instrument, it, the lower ,manifestation of intelligence,
deceases and gives place to the higher. So with the intelli-
gence manifest through the human; it ceases unless we can
retain it in the old instrument in passing through this trial of
reﬁnement, which reﬁnement destroys the old instrument or
body, but out of which springs a new and more perfected
body that puts forth more perfect exhibits of intelligence-
which intelligence is as much higher than the former intelli-
gence, as is the new reﬁned body or instrument higher than
the old body. MADOX, of Maine.

Aug., 1875.

[Written for Woodhull 8.7 Claﬂin’s Weekly]
THE SOUL AND LOVE.
" LOVE.

“Such a world 1 Such aworld !”
What’s a-wrong, sweet dreamer, now ?
Are the days not new delights ?

Do not the stars shine out 0’ nights
As of old, as of old,

Just to light up azure eyes,

, Just -to tint the purple dyes

. Of your glossy braids ? *

Little feet go softly by,
Little hands weave mystery

With the cunning of caprice.
Gold braids and beads of jet
Flush the cheek of,Willamette,

In the soft threads deftly woven

Of the love no love hath spoken,
Thoughts in weaving by the score,
Love’s ditty sighing—nothing more 2

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Now the heart’s grown sad with loving, _
’Tis a gladness oftvdisproving

Happiness once inly felt:

Restless heart, and eyes that melt

To tears, which sorrow oft discloses.

Surely love is heavy-freighted,

When two twin-hearts overweighted

Rush to feast their ﬁll on roses.
Time strews thorns beneath their feet.
Dear heart—say, may soul thee greet,
Else, all will waste to nothingness ?

I’ll tear the Vail aside, sweetheart,

And enter in. I’ll bear a part ,
ofjoy, or grief, ortender11ess,»too great
To live on ﬂesh, or wear a robe of state.
‘Twill perish so, in hands so warm

With life-blood, in whose holy charm

The purest kindling of the spirit’s glow
Fades out, and wastes, like melting snow.
Nay, nay; come back and drink the Waters,
Scarce tasted by the sons and daughters,

A Of thexrich vine land’S g10Wi11g Vintage-

Sweeter yet your heart shall be,
Sweet—heart’s divines ecstacy;

In the soul’s empyrean pleasures

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You shall surely ﬁnd your treasures—‘

Limbs so lithe, and bosom, hot with pressing.
Turbulent, sets all aglow with love’s caressing,
Lighting azure eyes made only for the smiles
Of angels, into all the tempter’s wanton wiles.
I’ll spare thee crushing weight in coming years,
And save thee many sighs and many tears,

if, but lhy snow--White Vail is torn aside,

And I am called to stay forever at thy side;
Bidden to glorify the face of coming bride
With love that steeps the heart in bliss,
Revelliug in the nectar of a kiss.

LOVE.

« Not yet ! Oh soul 1 Not yet I
".i‘would fade the glow of cheeks, and leave the eyes a-wet
With sorrow for all losses,
When love shall meet with crosses
Which soul begets to ﬂesh, and breaks in twain
The golden meshes of the lustrous chain.
Thoul’t stay away till love grows Weary
‘ Of the dance, revel, a11d the touch of ﬂesh,
And. days that ﬂit like golden mesh
Wove into shadows. Life is but a shade,
And the tired soul must ﬁnd it dark and dreary
And grow despondent-ere its peace is made.
Nay, nay, I will abide as now awhile,
And drink the sweetness of thy joyful smile
That ﬂits like April cloudlets overhead.
The soul must wait—and wait—till love is dead.

SOUL.

Must wait ? Oh, wherefore wait to let love die ?
When in the souls crypt, all deep-treasured, lie
The glories of its coming state;
The dawn of brighter morning, all elate
With breath of an immortal life, its own,
Yea, all its own, if Lcvc stands waiting to atone?
Wherefore die ‘3 The passion’s waking,
Glowing kiss,
The tender pressure of the body’s bliss,
The heaving bosom, and the breaking
Of the fetters at love’s touch;
The Soul is not dismayed—if loving much.

It ﬁnds in love its life, and gives its life to love,
Commingling both. Nectar distilled above

The primrose cup, whose sparkling crimson eyes
Send upward-glancing odors to the skies.

Sweet-heart, let love be free;

°’l'.will whiter be for every ccstacy

And thrill of passion’s wild control,

If over all stands guerdon of the soul:

Palm-crowned, it meets its God in me,

The Soul and Love attuned in sympathy.

CHARLOTTE BARBER.

 

ll/IARRIAGE AS IT IS.

- BY WARREN CHASE. L,
In a wide and long experience of travel and close observa-
tion, with critical examination of this important subject, We

have found a great variety of conditions with but few perfect

harmonics in the marital relations of life. Although often
accused of separating families we have never participated in
producing a single separation in our long experience in the
social controversy. Where we have found a complete separ-
ation morally, religiously, socially and sexually, we have
often assisted——-sometimes one and sometimes both parties—-
in securing a legal separation, feeling assured that there
could be no union and no happiness for either in continuing
the bondage. Where there have been fractional inharmonies
such as could be overcome we have often assisted in the
removal of them and the reconciliation of the parties. But
we have so many and such a variety of totally irreconcilable
inharmonies in married life that we long since became fully
satisﬁed that our system of marriage was radically wrong
and working more evil than good, and sought and found
what we sincerely believe is a remedy which would preserve
all the good in it and avoid most, if not all, the evil conse-
quences of sexual mating as it is now carried on under the law.
In public our system has never, to our knowledge, been at-
tacked, and in private hundreds of persons of both sexes
have given their approval of it, and yet neither the press nor
pulpit nor the rostrum has taken it up to defend it. It is the
written and recorded civil contract of the parties with the
entire removal of all marriage and divorce laws, leaving the
parties under the general law of partnership in civil con-
tracts, where both parents and children can be far better pro-
tected and provided for than they are by our present com-
plicated system of family relations that involves most of our
large estates in expensive lawsuits at the death of the male
owner or partner. But’ at this time we take up the pen to
describe one kind of domestic life in which we ﬁnd a great
many living, or trying to live. A man of strong physical, men-
tal and moral qualities, ardent and highly magnetic tempera-
ment, positive and passional, but honest and conscientious,
and striving to be what he calls virtuous, pure and devoted,
ﬁnds, as such men seek and are almost sure to ﬁnd, a dell-
cate, sensitive, conﬁding, undevelopcd,childlike, loving, nega-
tive and magnetically susceptible woman, much younger

than himself very often, or may not be. Of course such a

Woman is at once attracted and almost wholly controlled by
such a mind, and begins to admire, to love, to almost wor-
ship the ardent and loving, man, andtrusts in him with the
conﬁdence of a child in its mother. Then comes the marriage,
or as soon as all legal obstacles are removed-—-for it often re-
quires a divorce ﬁrst. She is now his property by law and reli-
gion and the closer union begins its unequal work which soon
prgves the entire destruction of the sexual passion in the
wife, even before it is really and naturally developed, and she
becomes as sexually dead as a child in its 1hother’s arms.
What is to be done ? He loves her and she loves him, but by
his ignorance and inability, or indisposition to govern his
passions he has destroyed hers and she is no sexual compan-
ion ‘for him, and he is not to her the loving husband she
sought or thought she was marrying. VVe ﬁnd thousands of
families living thus, trying to deceive the public and their
friends and striving in vain to adapt themseiyeg to each other ;

and thus i.n misery they will live till the wife dies to make‘ way
for another, or till the husband runs away, socially or sexu-
ally, and gets a divorce, and she, sickened and heart-broken,
decides that all sexual life is misery and all social harmony a
myth.‘ Children are often born in these relations, and if
strong enough to live till they can draw life from the outer
world, grow up with the passions unnatural in one or the
other extreme of development. They are usually the objects
of intense love in the mother, for as she must lose the love
she had for the father it is doubled for the child. Her‘ body
is a living, if not a daily, sacriﬁce, and her life one of penance
and devotion to a system that has become a Moloch on which
are sacriﬁed in our country thousands of victims annually,
and those‘ among our ﬁnest and -best specimens of female
purity, beauty and love. Chattel slavery bore no comparison
in enormity to our marriage slavery and the sacriﬁces it re-
quires of the good and pure. But it is Holy, and it is sacri-
ligious to touch it!

GEMS FROM FOURIER.
SELECTED BY A. CRIDGE.
RELATIONS on THE SExEs” CONTINUED.

CORRESPONDENCES—GROUPS AND ELEMENTS.

Major Group. Friendship—uni-sexual affection, the cor-
responding element of which is, Earth.

Ambition-——corporative affection, the corresponding element
being, Air.

Minor Group. Love——bi-sexual affection, corresponding
element -of which is, Aroma. Family—-con—sanguineous af-
fection, the corresponding element being Water. (Vol. IV.
p. 3-39.) '

[REMARK.—-Is it because love corresponds to “Aroma,” or
the essences of things—soul, spirit—that many of those who
recognize spirit as superior to matter, ask freedom in its
manifestations ?] O"

Alternative Dorzimot-nee of Groups.

Anterior phase, or infancy l to 15 yrs friendship-blossom
Citerlor,——adolescence 16 to 35 “ love—ﬂower
Central phase, or virility 36 to 4-5 “ love and ambition
Ulterior phase, or maturity 46 to 65 “ ambition—fruit
Posterior, or old age 66 to 80 “ familism—-grain.

The pivotal [essential] character of each period is always
drawn from customs regarding love. For instance :—a lead-
ing characteristic of the Fourth period, or Barbarism, is the
absolute slavery of woman; of the Fifth period, or civiliza-
tion, exclusive marriage and the civil liberty of the wife.

The consequences [in the Civilized period] of infidelity
[sexual] are the same when a woman is sterile, as when she
maintains her own child, not attributing it to a man without
his consent. If the law had permitted to women the free
exercise of love in these two cases, we should have seen this
falsehood in love relations [which he claims causes necessa-
rily fraud and falsehood in all other relations of life] diminish,
and We should have been able without inconvenience, to
adopt the divine freedom. Thus Civilizees, by reason of
their tyrannical spirit toward women, have failed in securing
the passage into the Sixth period [Guaranteeism] whither the
law I have mentioned would have conducted them.

[REMARK.——'l‘here seems a atural correspondence, on a
large scale, between passional and alimentive starvation. The
same co-operative household that will emancipate from sexual
tyranny also secures alimentive abundance by saving two
thirds or more of household work and thereby enabling
women to become direct producers of wealth and be self-
sustaining. “ The emancipation of woman from sexual
slavery ” and “ the end of her pecuniary dependence on man ”
can only be exceptionally accomplished in the isolated house-
hold, but in unitary and co-operative life it will be the rule.
The initial stage or germ of this life is termed by Fourier
“ Guaranteeism,” and constitutes the essence of the “Grange”
movement, which is Co-operat-ion—-mutual protection against
speculators and monopolists. Entirely dissimilar in origin
and purpose as is the Granger movement and that for Per-
sonal freedom, they are seen in the light of Fourier’s philos-
ophy, to be steadily working to one end. In order that society
may “guarantee ” a tolerable minimum to each and all of its
members, the wicked, wanton waste of the isolated household
must give place to the economies of domestic co-operation;
and this last can alone render Personal freedom generally
possible.] ’

Civilizees, with instinct of falsity, have chosen for the piv
of the social system a group essentially false—the conjugal
couple; false by the number, limited to two, by the absence
of freedom, by the divergencies and disagreements of tastes.
(VI. 57.) .

Before admitting even a half freedom in love it is necessary
to introduce counterpoises which even Harmonians cannot
create under ﬁfteen or twenty years of practice. (VI. 154.)

Doubtless the conjugal system generates a world of vices.
* >%= =1‘ ‘4'= * * *  All these disorders are no motive
to abolish marriage, but to establish it onea regular scale com-
prising seven degrees besides the “ ambigu ” and the pivotal.
To speak only of the ﬁrst and second degrees, is it not evi-
dent that a sterile marriage is a weaker bond than that which
gives a child? This is a distinction between the ﬁrst and
second degree. *1‘ * =1‘ * ’’v‘ *1‘ * * Before even knowing
the ninedegrees to establish in marriage, it is necessary to
know and organize that state of things which will furnish
counterpoises and guarantees against the abuse of freedom
——an abuse not foreseen by the sophist Owen; he desired to
emancipate at once, as if we were in Otaheite and elsewhere,
where custom and prejudice have established counterpoises.

* v'v' * * ='r‘ ‘4" "F  * Love and paternity are the last
passions which can be subjected to the regime of truthfulness
—-a diﬁiculty totally ignored by those wh0,1ik6 OWGII [not
Robert Dale, but his father] make of the freedom of the pas-
sions as rash an experiment as that of the philosophers of
1791 on the abrupt emancipation of the negroes.

[REMARK.—E1sewhcre Fourier censures these same phi-
losophers, and other leading minds of the day, for not taking
advantage of revolutionary times to proclaim sexual free-
dom, and thereby completely vanquish opponents in church.

4.-x x’‘’' ‘‘

 

Nov. 6, 1375.

WOODHULL & (lLAFl.IN’S wsaatre 3

and , State. His “ counterpoises ” are replaced by better
ones, generated under the auspices of modernspiritualism,
viz. : A development of the Spiritual nature which causes
sensitiveness to spheres, harmonious or discordant, and a
reﬁning inﬂuence which puriﬁes and ennobles the sexual
relations, lifts them above the plane of lust, and reduces to a
very narrow limit, sometimes to practical monogamy, the
number of possible lovers, etc., and all this on the basis of
the most absolute spontaneity. '

Fourier’s position in this respect has much resemblance to
that of the celebrated mother who objected to her ,son’s
going into the water until he could swim. '

A The intense demand for personal freedom will prove to be
one of the most potent causes in leading people out of a civili-
zation, in which that freedom is but exceptionally possible.
into a social order which shall combine purity therewith.

His comparison of sexual with negro emancipation does

not strengthen his position. The not very gradual eman- ,

cipation in the British West Indies was quite orderly, though
somewhat detrimental from a purely commercial standpoint.
Asudden emancipation in the French VVest Indies in 1848 ap-
pears to have taken place without serious derangement or
disorder; and no evil results of consequence would have
attended negro emancipation in the United States but for
the white demagogues and fanatics who forced on the freed-
men, unasked and unqualiﬁed, politicalpowers, which could
only be used for mischief. It is not reasonable to suppose
that th~‘e”pe'rsonal " emancipation of woman will be attended
with lone-twentieth part of the disorder consequent upon the
civil and political ’ emancipation of the slave. His cautions,
in this respect, however, are worthy of careful consideration.
That which is so interwoven with our innermost an.d holiest
nature. should not be lightly tampered with, nor roughly
handled; but the changes demonstrably requisite skilfully,

guardedly and ‘gradually evolved from existing ,condit_ions.] ;

Vestalates-two-thirds young women, one-third; young men
-——is an order where virginity is maintained to 18 or 19 years of
age. Members oflthe “ Demoisellat,” reversing those pro-
portions of the sexes, deliver themselves earlier to love.

Means in Harmony of maintaining an equilibrum in popu-
lation are four, viz: V 

1. Vigorof the women. , A

2. Gastrosophic (greatly varied) diet.

3. Phanerogamic customs.

4. Integral exercise or instructions.

In‘ civilization, vigorous women in cities are often sterile,
while delicate ones are fruitful. In -the country vigorous
women are fruitful because of an aliment gross and little
varied, mostly conﬁned to vegetables. In Harmony the
varied and reﬁned diet, combined with far greater vigor in
women than can exist in civilization, will tend to a degree of
sterility that will maintain due equilibrium. (VI. 339.)

True association will in time modify, graduate, and not
suppress marriage, and will only touch it by degrees in the
next generation. (VI. 473 )

 

AN HOUR WITH THE WEEKLY.
( Continued.)

V “And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very
much, until he left numbering, for it was without number.”

By what right did Joseph gather corn into the king’s store-
houses? By the right of consent from the king and his peo-
ple to__such action. By what means did he obtain that con-
sent? By representing to them that the public welfare
demanded it. Why did the people believe that Joseph could
better take care of their interests than they could them-
selves? Because they knew nothing of individual sover-
eignty; they had no conception of the principles of self—gov-
ernment.

Joseph signiﬁes, “he shall add.” He was a capitalist. The »

Government was in trouble; the king had had mysterious
dreams. Joseph cajoled the administration and the people
into the belief that their only salvation was in him. Uncle
Pharoah took the bait and gave to him power and riches;
whereupon our ancient capitalist began immediately to ac-

I cumulate into his own keeping all the surplus products of
the Egyptians.

The seven years of plenty ended, and Joseph held under
his control all the proﬁt of the labor of these years. “ What
blind, deluded fools! ” do you say? The Egyptians were
under monarchial government, and had been for generations.
What do you say of the American people, who claim to be
free and enlightened, exercising the functions of self—govern-
ment? From 1865 to 1872 were seven years-bf inﬂation. Why
did you allow the modern Josephs, during? that time, to ob-
tain control of all the surplus of the country?

“And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people
cried to Pharoah for bread; and Pharoah said unto all the
Egyptians: Go unto Joseph, what he saith to you do,”
What! Couldn’t the Government relieve the pressure of the
“ hard times? ” N o. The incumbent of the executive chair
directed them to go to the capitalist, and to do just as he
said. In 1873 the panic came; and the people looked to
Washington for relief. The enlightened, free-born and self-
governing American people, their wise representatives and
statesmen and the executive functionaries of their Govern-
ment were bound hand and foot by a few moneyed dummies,
and Uncle Sam was obliged to inform the sovereign people
that he could do nothing for them but to refer them to their
captors. . A

“And Joseph opened all thestore-houses and sold unto the
Egyptians.” .

The capitalists were very gracious; assured the people that

, this wasa “ big country; ” that no one need suffer; that there

was a superabundance ; opened their numberless store-houses
and very magnanimously offered to sell them all they could
pay for. Truly, what public benefactors theicapitalists are.

“ And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in
the land of, Egypt it *  G for the corn which they
brought.” ' .

The capitalists sold to the intelligent American laborers

their own products, until they got all the money into their
possession; and what next?

“And when money failed in the land of Egypt "5  *
all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said: Give us
bread, for why should we die in thy presence? for the
money faileth ?"’

Vffhen their money was gone the laborers said to the capi-
talists: “ You have got all our money and all our products;
rather than let us famish in the midst of this plenty, you will
surely give us employment whereby we may be able to keep
the wolf from our ﬁresides.” Here are your independent,
intelligent, enlightened American producers beggars at the
doors of the drones, supplicating for the donation of the very
bread they have themselves raised! Did the capitalists supply
them according to the tenor of the request? Not they.

“And Joseph said: Give your cattle, and I will give you
for your cattle if the money fail.” I

We will exchange with you if you do not wish to starve ;
pass over your personal property.

“ And they brought their cattle unto Joseph, and he fed
them with bread, for all their cattle, for that year.” N ow
Joseph has got all the personal property of the Egyptians
into his possession. How conducive to the “ public welfare!”
Money gone, personal property gone. . What did the pro-
ducers next? Read on.» ,_    ,-  .

“ When that year was ended they;came‘- unto him * * *
and said unto him: * * * Thereis not aught left in the
sight of my’ lord but our bodies and our lands. * * * Buy
us and our land for ‘bread, and we and our land will be serv-
ants unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that We may live and
not die, that the land be not ‘desolate.”, I .

The great “Adder” had get complete control; ‘the pro-
ducers had become disheartened through their degradation
and offered themselves voluntary slaves unto him.

“ And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharoah
* * >1‘ So the land became Pharoah’s.\

The land became an auxliary of J oseph’s power.

“ Then Joseph said unto the people: Behold, I have bought
you this day and your land for Pharoah.”

The people themselves were instruments of his power.

“ And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall
give the ﬁfth part unto Pharoah.”

Contribute a ﬁfth part of your labor to the increase of my
power. The capitalist enslaved the whole industrial force of
the land of Egypt. This was the way he provided for the
“ public welfare ;” and for these public acts of disinterested
benevolence the serfs exclaimed, “ Thou hast saved our lives;
let us ﬁnd grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be
Pharoah’s servants,” or “ slaves of thy power.” Here you
have i‘t—-the producers completely duped! The capitalist
was their Saviour! “ Great is Diana of the Ephesians;
greater is Joseph, governor of the house of Pharoah! I

Howﬁcan the laborer be redeemed from his bondage when
he thinks that he is already redeemed by the capitalist ? It
would be ingratitude on his part to desire a less dependent
position. He has mademoney his idol ; he bows before it in
worship. The capitalist is the producer’s Pope. Labor has
accorded to him the attribute of infallibility. Is the capi-
talist blameable forithis’? By nor means. The producer is
alone accountable, by making money his God, and its holders
its vicegerent. The laborer is continually apeing the man-
ners, customs and fashions of his monied neighbor. The
laborer, by his own act, has brought this slavery upon him-
self; his veneration has induced the act. The representative
laborer has in all ages been ﬁrst to proclaim his own in-
feriority; he is a moral coward; if he is dimly conscious of
the wrong, he has not the courage to openly avow that “ his
soul is his own.” (“ It belongs to my moneyed master.”)
rise dares not so much as to complain; he fears to attempt to
remove the cobweb shackles that bind him. If he makes a
strike in the name of freedom, he does it by the coercion of
some capitalist who has a new scheme ‘to accomplish for the
acquisition of power. In my next I will point out the means
of deliverance, but I boldly venture the assertion that not
ten per cent of the laboring male population of this country
dare to openly endorse it. EDWARD PALMER.

r40-—<

[Frromithe Chicago Tm'bune.]
THE BACHELORS.
YOU'LL CATCH rr roe THIS.

CHICAGO, Aug. Z8.—I notice in your paper this morning

quite a number of letters from the young people on the sub-

ject of matrimony. This question seems to agitate the
younger portion of our community, as I see that the quiet
sheet, the Inter-Ocean, contains quite aT“number of these effu-
sions from young and probably inexperienced enthusiasts. I
trust you will permit me to give expression to my ideas on
this subject in your valuable paper.

The average'young- man of this city is opposed tofmarriage
for many reasons, and these reasons I shall try and give as
plainly as possible, so that I may not be understood as giving
false opinions on the subject.

Of course the principal and all-absorbing reason is “money.”

This enters into the question at the very outset, as no young’

man of common sense will think of marriage without, in
some way, counting the cost of this expensive luxury.

The modern young man looks at society around him, and
what does he see? Young girls dressed to death, painted,
frizzed and furbelowed, and their weak forms strained, laced
and contortioned out of all shape; extravagant to the last
degree; dancing, ﬂirting, eating latesuppers, keeping late
hours and waking in the morning with their health all broken

down. Then dawdling about the house till evening again,

and then another round the same as before. Now, are these
girls ﬁt for wives and mothers? N 0! Emphatically, N 0 I
This is what the young man sees around him. ‘

Now these girls are well enough ‘to talk to for 9. moment,
but not to marry. They require too much capital for a good
investment, and ayoung man is not going to drop three or
four pegs in society because he can't support his wife in the
one he moves in. No. Better remain single, and wait till he

can support a wife in the same society from which he takes
her. This is the ﬁrst reason-—-“Financial.”.‘

The second reason is that the modern young girl is so much
of a butterﬂy that our young men would not trust themselves
to marry them. They might succeed in winning one of her,
but they cannot depend on them, they are so ﬁckle. They

must continue in that whirl of society to which they are so ,

used, and this causes continual wcrriment on the part of the
young man, and after a short, time breeds infelicity in the
home of the young couple. ‘

' The third reason 1s the health of the modern belle. She
continues the dissipation of the day to such a length that
when she comes to marry she is all broken down, and is unable
to bear the troubles of motherhood, and requires constant at-
tendance of a familyphysician, and thus entailing a very
severe expense on the young man of to—day; and they (the
belles of the day) are entirely adverse to the propagation of
the race, as it would not admit of their free movements in
the fashionable centre, and would hamper them greatly.

The fourth reason is their entire inability to keep house,
they having spent their rtime dawdling about their homes,
not learning or caring to learn anything about the home gov-
ernment; and when they come to be a young wife they are
wholly unﬁt to manage a. house, and thus {are unﬁt tobe a
young man’s wife. They know nothing about a kitchen, and
have to leave its entire management to some hired help, thus
allowing much waste. They know absolutely nothing about
economy, and the young man is out of pocket.

These, Mr. Editor, are a few of the reasons why a young
man cannot marry, and the number of young bachelors is
constantly increasing. These are ‘‘ stubborn facts,” and so
the young men of to-day retire to their own amusements,
leaving matrimony to novices who do not study the philoso-
phy of the thing. L

When a paper of the high literary character and moral
standing in the country that the Chicago Tribune enjoys can
publish such articles as this, there is cause for rejoicing that
the evils of our social system are beginning to have considera‘-.~
tion, and that there has been‘ a paper somewhere that has
persistently insisted that these subjects should be publicly
discussed, until it has become possible. This article, as well
as several others that we shall copy hereafter, are from the
pen of one the ablest and most promising young men of Chi-

cago, who writes , under the above nom-dc-plumc.—ED.

WEEKLY.

PALLIATING AND PLAUSIBLE.

S. S. Jones, in a. criticism on the doctrtne of “ euthanasia,”
says: g  -
In the course of human events Sickles decided to shoot
Keys. Stokes to put an end to Fisk, the negro to brutally kill
the Van Ess family in New York, Newman to waylay Prof.
Evans and Prof. Webster, to secretly destroy the life of Par-
ker; for them we can imagine palliating circumstances and
plausible excuses, but he who coolly and deliberately orders
the death of an incurable, or administers the poisonous dose,
is equally as great a criminal as the murderer—-he abridges
that life which the ordinances of nature gave, and which they
sustain, and which they ought to know when to withdraw‘
from the physical organization. ‘ . < 1 g
V Here is richness for you. A man in the full vigor of health
may bemerushed beyond the possibility of recovery, or fatally
stabbed in the bowels, and the human surgeon, who would
administer an anesthetic of suﬁicient power to terminate his

(sufferings, even though earnestly requested to do so by the
dying man, would be “ as great a criminal as the murderer.” -

On the other hand, one may differ from his neighbor in. a
business transaction, and kill him and have a “plausible ex-
cuse.” Two congenial souls, naturally formed for loving,
may blend in sweetest accord, creating the only marriage
that the angel world, or the deliberate judgment ‘of the hu-

man can ever regard as more sacred than a common contract, '
yet if ,the union happens to cross the imaginary rights of .
some social despot wholly incapable of eliciting a woman’s I

love and wholly unworthy of it, hemay waylay the naturally .

fortunate but conventionally doomed man and shoot him,
and then stand over the prostrate form of the seducer, cut-
ting and slashing him with the murderous knife. -But then
it makes all the difference in the world whether one is “ re-
spectable ” or “infamous.” R. P. LEWIS.

 

WI-IAT DO YOU THIN OF  ‘B

The right of “self-government ” is. but another name for
“individual sovereignty.” It belongs to each person. It is
freedom , inalienable and inherent in each one, and its very
existence calls for free earth, air, water, food, clothing, edu-
cation, home, government, and religion. For these things in-
dividual sovereigns do all their labor, and they are the real
objects of all work. Sovereigns know no wages for work. or

salary for oﬂicials, or money for a measure of value. They V

destroy all these, and make everything free to all. Free
postage, transportation and telegraphic communication.
Aye! free everything to everybody, everywhere, is indivi-
dual sovereignty or self-government to all the sons and
daughters of earth or heaven above. I
A perfect liberty, self—government or sovereignty cannot
be enjoyed by ruling others. It can only exist by leaving all
free to rule themselves; while we rule ourselves only. Men,
women and children, rulers and the ruled, stand alike as po-
tentates in the realm of self-government. ‘As our own per-
fect liberty is only secured in the complete liberty of all
others, it becomes our great duty in life to labor for the

liberty and welfare of all that we may enjoy our own in per- I

fection. There can be no clashing of interests where every-
thing and everybody is free. Such is the on-coming future
as she casts her light on A.’ P. BOWMAN.
“QUIETS the prejudice of relatives, stops the tongue of
scandal and takes the pith out of the gossip of the vulgar
rabble.” I

My God! is that Warren Chase? My soul sinks/Within me,

and I am sick at heart.

Does Mother Grundy own Vifarren Chase? I have far
more respect for those who go‘ to a priest and get legally
married than for such catering to an insane public opinion.

' SEWARD MITOHELL'—

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If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see
death.———.Iesus. ‘

.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 joartiality and without hy-
pocrisy.—James, iii., 1 7.

And these signsshall follow them .' In my name
shall they cast out devils ,' they shall take up serpents ,°
and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
them ; they shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover;—Jesus.

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THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ;
OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST.

For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship
hi1n.~—Sr. MATTHEW, ii., 2.

 

This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of
which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly
shown 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

I 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 hope and trust may be shortly realized.

THE ALLEGORICAL CHARACTER OF THE BIBLE.

 

For it is written that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond maid,
the other by a free woman. But‘ he who was of the bond woman was
born after the ﬂesh ; but he of the free woman was by promise; which
things are an allegory: for these two [children] are the two covenants ;
the one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to Jerusalem
(woman), which now is, and is in bondage with her children; but Jeru-
salem (woman) which is above is free; which is the mother of us all.-
GAL.. iv, 22 to 26. .

And not as Moses, which put at Vail over his face, that the children of
Israel could not steadfastly look to Ihe end of that which is abolished;
but their minds were blinded; for unto this day remaineth the same vail
untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done
away in Christ. But even unto this day. when Moses is read the vail is
upon their heart.——II. CORINTHLANS, iii, 13 to 15.

And he said unto them [his disciples], Unto you it is given to know the
mysteries of the Kingdom of God; but unto them that are without all
these things are done in parables, that seeing they may see and not per-
ceive. and hearing they may hear and not understand.

And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will
ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these’ are they
by the wayside where the word is sown; but when they have heard,
Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in
their hearts. And these are they likewise that are sown on stony
ground; who’, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with
gladness, and have no root in themselves, and so endure for a. time;
afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake,
immediately they are offended. .

And these are they which are sown among thorns: such as hear the
word, and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the
%ust% 0; other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh un-

I‘11l vu .
And these are they which are sown on good ground: such as hear the
word and receive it and bring forth Iruit, some thirty-fold, some sixty
and some an hundred.-—Sr. MARK, iv, 11 to 20.

Nobody who knows anything about the Bible from person-
al examination will ever pretend to deny that throughout it is
written ﬁguratively, poetically or allegorically; [and yet
scarcely anybody can be found among those who profess to
be its accredited expositors who will accept the logic of
these facts. They will read the parable of the rich man and
Lazarus with all the severity of which asceticism is possible,
telling you in the ﬁrst place that it is a parable, but, never-
theless, all the while picturing the torments of the rich man
in hell ﬁre, and thegbliss of Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom.
So they take the parable for the reality, and let the reality,
which contains a nrost important lesson, escape them alto-
gether. And so it j' is with the whole Bible. Even in
Jesus’ teachings, it ‘is said that he did not teach save in
parables, but they are all swallowed literally, and are fast
strangling the people who have some common sense, into the
consciousness that they have been feeding their religious na-
tures on the pictures merely of that which should have been
their food.

It is not our purpose now to enter into a consideration of
what may be the hidden meaning of the ﬁgurative language
that we have quoted from the Bible, but to say that it is a fair
example of the rest. But consider for a moment what a
different character St. Paul’s explanation puts upon that old
story about Abraham. That story is still taught by Chris-
tians as literally true. They ignore the fact that Paul put an-
other face upon it. Paul says that it doesn’t mean at all that
Abraham had those two children—the one by a bond-maid
and the other by a free woman——but that they are the two

. covenants and refer to all children born, those born in sin

and iniquity being children of the bond maid, while those
who are born free from sin are by promise of the free wo-
man. Thus it seems that Abraham has been made to bear a
great deal of unjust odium innocently, which a careful read-
ing of St. Paul might have saved the Christian world from
casting upon him. And if this part of the story about
Abraham is an allegory, may‘ we not rightly hold that the
rest of the story about him is of the same character ? In-
deed may we not say that it is just probable that Abraham
himself is an allegory and means something else ; and that
the story about his twelve sons, and about Joseph being sold
into Egypt, has a hidden meaning, about which St. Paul
says, “ the vail remaineth untaken away.”

One thing is quite evident, and that is, that the miraculous
manner of the delivery of the Jews out of Egypt—of the
parting of the waters of the Red Sea to permit them to pass
over on dry land, and of their closing in upon Pharoah and
his host to destroy them, is an allegory. Wliat all these al-
legories may refer to can never be known certainly until the
key to the great and ﬁnal mystery is in the hands of their
readers.‘ With this once understood, the Bible from begin-
ning to ending may be read with the vail taken away,
“ which vail,” St. Paul says, “is taken away in Christ.”
That is to say, when any have received Christ and learned
of him then the vail is name ved ; is removed because
having realized what his mission was, all things that relate to
it become clear. Paul evidently understood all this, since
he said, “ Though I have the gift of prophecy, and under-
stand all mysteries and all-knowledge,” etc. Then the key
to all these allegories and mysteries of the Bible lies in
knowing what was the end and aim of Christ’s mission.
There is some single great and all-pervading, all~permeating
and all-important fact to which all these things refer. If
the Bible have any signiﬁcance at all that is worth consider-
ing, it cannot be said that it is a hotch-potch of a little of
every thing. Some one grand and central idea is fore-
shadowed throughout, or else it is a hotch-potch about
which nobody can obtain any clue, and to which it is im-
possible to ﬁnd either beginning or ending, head or tail.
Asidefrom setting forth the condition from which salvation

was, and is, needed, nobody can dispute that all its force.

and beauty is centered in the mission of Christ. All the
prophets speak of it continually, and the whole burden of
the Gospels and Epistles is most patently of that mission;
therefore, it mustbe concluded that all the allegories and
mysteries refer to the same thing. They do refer to the
same thing,’ as will be made evident in the course of time.
In the beginning of the Bible there is the allegorical pic-
ture of the human body (elsewhere in the book; called the

allegorical or ﬁgurative.

Temple of God) or the Garden of Eden——one of the most
beautiful and.trutht'ul pictures of which it is possible to
conceive. It sets forth that in the midst of this garden is
the tree of life, of the fruit of which its possessors were
commanded not to eat. .But all the world eat of it and
die, as it was declared that they should. In the ending of
the book this tree of life is again spoken of ‘ as being the
fruit which was for the healing of the nations, but in con-
nectionwith a pure river of water of life, proceeding out of
the throne of God. Now this river of life in the beginning is
represented by the fruitful river Euphrates, the waters of
which in the allegorical picture in Exodus (iv. and vii.)
were turned to blood. These were all the waters in Egypt
that were turned to blood, the principal river Euphrates of
the Garden of Eden, and a truthful but a sorrowful picture.
it is indeed. “In Egypt” does not mean in the land known in
geographical terms by that cognomen; but it means in the
darkness—the people who were in ignorance in those days,
and who are so still, are, allegorically, in the land of Egypt;
and whoever is delivered out of the land of Egypt, goes
across the Red Sea (the sea of blood) on dry land; and those
who are in darkness that attempt to follow them are sub-
merged in the waters and perish——that is die.?~ ~
Now here we have the introductory key-‘note to the whole
Bible. Everything relates to the Garden of Eden, to man’s
(not woman’s) expulsion from it, and to the changing of the
waters of the fruitful Euphrates, which should be waters
of life, into rivers of blood, which become the destruction
of the race. 1 -
This is the condition into which the whole world is
plunged. The Euphrates river runs ﬂoods of destruction

instead of waters of life‘, and it is from this condition that r

Christ came to save it; to save it “by a new and aliving
way,” as St. Paul said: to open the door into the fold
through which all who are saved must pass. Saved how?
That is the question, and the“ only question. If it can be
determined positively, what it means to be saved by Christ,
then the whole mystery is solved. It is true that the Bible
is allegorical and ﬁgurative throughout, but these ﬁgures
and these allegories all relate to something that is
not either ﬁgurative or allegorical, and when that
something is spoken of in the Bible it is not
This must be clear, it seems
to us. The thing about which all the ﬁgures and all the
allegories are used is not ‘itself of that character. It is a
fact in and of itself, standing out distinctly from all the
pictures that are made of it and among which it is bound
Then there is some single fact set forth in the Bible in plain
terms, in terms which mean literally as they read, and
which do not need to be intcrpreted;'which are neither
allegorical or ﬁgurative; which plainly and clearly set forth
in Words just what is meant. But until the real mission of
Christ is discovered to the mind, it cannot be determined
which of the presentations are real and which are alle-
gorical.

Is there any way to determine between these? Most
assuredly there is. If there was and is a Christ, he had a
mission. Now whatwas that mission? The mission cannot
be allegorical. All the allegories relate to that mission.
Hence, if it can be determined what that mission is, then
it can be also determined what is not allegorical in the
Bible. Isn’t this clear? It seems so to us. Well, that mis-
sion is set forth as the salvation of the world. Salvation
from what? Here is the point. Saved from what? Saved
for what? Saved in what? The Christianssay saved from
hell and saved into heaven. But they ignore the doctrine
of the resurrection in this programme. If this doctrine is
true, and there is to be a resurrection, then the life that is,
after physical death, is not the ultimate condition in which
the world is to exist. We repeat, if there is any truth in
the doctrine of the resurrection, then the saved condition
must be that in which the people who shall be resurrected
shall ﬁnd themselves. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection
and the life,” and declared His mission to be, “ To bring
life and immortality (hitherto in darkness, of course,‘) to
light.” He also said (St. John vi., 47, and on,) “Verily,
verily, I say unto you, he that bclieveth on me hath ever-
lasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat
manna in the wilderness and are dead. He that eateth of
this bread shall live forever.” It will be noticed that
whenever Jesus spoke of this subject he introduced it by
saying, ‘ ‘Verily, verily, ” ‘meaning truly; which was as much as
to say, now I speak to you not in parables, but mean just
what I say, In every instance, we think, when Jesus
spoke of eternal life—-—-of not dying——he used these Words,
and he said distinctly that to be saved with the salvation
that he brought was, not to die. “ Your fathers did eat
manna in the wilderness and are dead, but he that eateth of
of this bread shall not die.” He spoke of a fact. They are
dead. There is nothing allegorical about that. But “he
that eateth this bread shall live forever.” Thereis nothing
allegorical about that. It is a fact stated most emphatically.

Again, the absurdity of saying that the salvation of J esus,
was to be saved from hell—the hell that Christians picture,
of ﬁre and brimstone—may be clearly demonstrated in an-
other way. They do not pretend t_hat to be in hell is to
die and be blotted out; on the contrary, they say that it is a.
never ending torment, in life. So far as existence is con.-
cerned, whether it be in their heaven or in their hell, there
is no difference. It is life in both: life and suffering in the
one, and life and bliss in the cther.':Tl1‘en where is the death
that is to be escaped? Plainly death is not allegorical in

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the sense in which Jesus used it, nor in the sense in which
St. Paul used it when he said “ The last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death.” Nothing can be made more
clear than that the distinction between the life and the
death of the Bible, is that of life in the body and the death
of that body. Nothing but the body dies; nothing else can
die. Then why talk of death to the soul of spirit! These
are immortal, and that to which they aspire is an immortal
body-in which to live, and to have an immortal body is to
be saved as Jesus came to save the world; is to be saved
from death, or,t0 be resurrected from death into life ; and
to have this is to obtain admission into the Garden of ‘Eden,
and eat properly of the fruit of the garden; is to enter in
and live in the holy city——the New Jerusalem—in which
the tree and the river of life mingle their fruit and waters

. and become the healing of the nations, so that there shall

be no more death.

HOMICIDE AND SOCIETY.

Under the above heading the New York Ifemld of Oct.
22 laments the social disorders of the age in this wise :

“ The frequency of crimes of the same character and degree
in certain seasons has often been remarked, and just now the
old observation is’ veriﬁed by repeated homicides caused
either by love or jealousy. On Wednesday Jacob Standar-
man was convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the
murder of his sweetheart. and about the time this poor cul-
prit was doomed to the galldws another wretch attempted the
life of a woman who had rejected him, and succeeded in tak-
ing his own. There has been a singular development of mur-
ders or attempts at murder, followed by suicide; but the fre-
quency of these peculiar crimes is to be found in social
causes. Scarcely any other motive would have induced Stan-
derman to become a murderer, and the same vengeful feel-
ings of disappointment led Revere into the double crime,
which, had it entirely succeeded, would have made him a
Society is partly re-
sponsible for the frequency of these crimes——the loose notions
of morals and the freedom allowed to the relations of the
sexes being the sources of this, as well as many other evils.
Prevention can only come with the severe punishment of all
offenders, and the enforcement of sterner rules of morals and
of social etiquette. We must take a backward step, and not
only surround our women with the sanctity of purity, but
protect them and ourselves by making the sacredness of home
and virtue inviolable. We have gone too far in the freedom
of social intercourse, and it is time that we begun to learn the
methods which society adopts in older lands than ‘our own.”

To these the New York Sun of the day following, Oct.
23, adds the following horrible incidents of a similar char-
acter: ,

“ As the ferry boat James Rumsey was about starting from
the foot of Barclay street just after midnight yesterday
morning two men and a woman entered the cabin, and the
woman and one of the men bade the other farewell, showing
much emotion and wringing each other’s hands. As soon as
the two had gone away the third ran to the bow of the boat,
leaped the iron gates and jumped into the water. While
climbing the gate he asked a bystander whether the water
was cold, but..did not wait for an answer. The body was not
recovered.”

“ SKQWHEGAN, Me., Oct. 22.-—A shocking murder and sui-
cide occurred in the town of Mercer to-day. Mrs. Walton,
the divorced wife of Hiram Walton, who has been living with
Greenleaf Tracy, was shot and-ikilled-t»-byi’I"racy in a ﬁt of
jealousy. He then ﬂed to the woods and shot himself. Both
were dead when found.” ‘

Jacob Sanderman shot a woman simply because she re-
fused him as a lover; Revere shot himself for a like cause,
after having ﬁrst paid his respectful addresses to the object
of his love by knocking her down. The other two cases
when searched into will doubtless present similar phases of
diseased affection. We claim that murder never results
from love, except it be self-love, which is jealousy. The
reason such cases are multiplying among us is because we
are now in a transition state, and the position of woman is
undeﬁned and unsettled. We object to the Ha7uld’s ruling,
which calls upon us to take a “backward step,” and ear-
nestly entreat the world to take a forward one instead.
Man cannot “surround our women with the sanctity of pu-
rity ” better than by acknowledging the power of woman in
aifectional matters, and withdrawing every male law which
prevents what the Herald calls “ our women” from insti-
tuting better regulations themléelves. As things are, all
male brutes hold themselves to be, in power over women,
and hence daily brutalities and almost daily wife murders
stain the pages of our presses. All this damnable anarchy
is the result of male domination, and there can be no hope
for a better condition of affairs until woman stands equal
with man before the law, and the personal sovereignty of
all women in all cases, whether as mothers,—wives or daugh-
ters, is held by it to be equally sacredwith that of fathers,

_ husbands and sons.

M
<77

THE LECTURE SEASON.

Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin 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: 5

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

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 grounds 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 Cleveland, 0., Oct. 30; Paines-
ville, 0., Nov. 1; Akron, 0., Nov. 2; Mansﬁeld, 0., Nov.
3; Springﬁeld, 0., Nov. 4; Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 5; Hamil-
ton, O., Nov. 8; Columbus, 0., Nov. 9; Newark, 0., Nov,
10; Zanesville, 0., Nov. 11; Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 12;
Steubenville, 0., N ov. 13. If any change in dates is made
it will be announced in the local papers.

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COMMENTS on THE PRESS.
[From the Democrat, Madison, Wis., Oct. 15, 187 5.]

Mas. VICTORIA O. WooI)iIUI.L expressed her sentiments to .
a large audience at the Opera House last evening. We noticed 3
several dozen ladies present. '

Mrs. Woodhull appeared in a plain black dress; at ﬁrst her
face presented a paleish hue, but after a time it ﬂushed up,
her eyes gleamed, and her" appearance became attractive,

She came in front of the stage, and at first referred to
manuscript, to some extent; but when she warmed up in her
address, she made no reference to her notes. She -is elo-

A quently expressive; her voice is silver toned, and her manner

graceful. She told a great deal of truth, but she has her own.
Way of telling it. I She did not utter a word which could not
be spoken in any circle.» If some of her expressions were
toned down a little, it would be better, perhaps, and-yet if
she should attempt to be anybody but the Victoria Woodhull,

she would not draw so large a crowd. ‘

[From the Chicago Times, Oct. 16, 1875.]

Long before 8 o’clock,.on last evening, the stairway leading ’

to McCormick Hall was crowded with counter—currents of
humanity—-the one ﬂowing up, delighted; the other pouring
down, disgusted. The seats had all been taken at an early
hour, and many hundreds were compelled to forego the privi-
lege of listening to Victoria 0. Woodhull.

 

[From the Chicago. Tribune, Oct. 16, 1875.]
VICTORIA WOODHULL.

McCormick Hall was crowded to repletion last evening to
hear Mrs. Woodhull lecture on “ The True and the False So-
cially.” The audience was largely composed of women. The
lady appeared on the rostrum about a quarter past 8 o'clock,
dressed in a plain black dress, ‘white collar and cuffs, a bunch
of roses on her breast being all the effort at ornamentation.
[The Tribune gave nearly a column report of the lecture.]

 

[From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Oct. 16, 1875.]

Mns. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL lectured at McCormicl4:t

Hall last evening on “ Social Evils: Their Cause and Cure.”
If the audience assembled because they believed and sympa-

thized with her doctrines, and not from mere curiosity,‘

Mrs. Woodhull ought certainly to feel ﬂattered, for the fol’-7 means the abrogation of forced pregnancy of ante natal]
. , , - _

lowing was not few. Every seat was ﬁlled, and there was

barely standing-room. Nor was the crowd composed of the .,

outcasts of society. Audiences not a whit more respectable
and reﬁned have gathered in the same hall to hear Theodore
Thomas and the celebrated lights of the rostrum and concert
room. At least one-third of those present were ladies, and
among their number were many who rank high in society
and who are not noted as riders of hobbies. Among the gen-

tlemen were ex-governors, railway superintendents, and

eminent divines. If any came and took their seats hesita-
tingly, fearing that they were to be seen in bad company,

Woodhull was given an unexpected reception in one of the
retiring rooms of the hall, just previous to going on to the

business men, lawyers and newspaper men. Victoria, on this-
occasion, was asked if she would deliver her lecture at some-
hall which should be provided this evening, entitled “ The
Garden of Eden.” This lecture is considered by Mrs. Wood-
hull the chief work of herlife, and in the preparation of which
she claims to have expended a vast amount of thought and
study. ,Mrs. Woodhull did not return a decisive answer to
this request. but improved the opportunity of enlightening
the audience somewhat upon the subject of her injuries and
tribulations during the later years of her rather tumultuous
existence. In her’ remarks Mrs. VVoodhull alluded to the
ﬂattering reception she had received on the occasion of her
present visit to Chicago, and took the opportunity to call the
attention of her hearers to a few points in her career which
she deemed especially worthy of notice. When she had com-
menced the advocacy of her peculiar doctrines she said she
had been thrust to the chilly borders of society by a ﬁerce-
and remorseless public opinion. She had not faltered in her

I work on account of it. Herself and sister had been ﬁve-

years in Broad street, N ow York, and had made and lost for-
tunes. They had spent another fortune in establishing the

dragged through the ﬁ1th°and {hire of a detestable and rotten
society. The_had been plundered of their wealth by, those
who proclaimed themselves their friends. She had endured
abuse, suffered-ccntumely, outrage and persecution until her
soul was faint and her brain on ﬁre. Still, she had persevered,
until now the misty vapors were rolling away, and like
Noah’s dove she had found a place to rest. She said her
ideas in regard to the relations of the sexes had been es-
pecially perverted and misunderstood. And she read from
one -of her printed speeches the following extract, as showing
what her true doctrine on this point is: - .

“ Promiscuity in sexuality is simply the anarchical stage of

_ development wherein the passions rule supreme. When

spirituality comes in and rescues the real man or woman from
the domain of the purely material, promiscuity is simply im~
possible. As promiscuity is the analogue to anarchy, so is
spirituality to scientiﬁc selection and adjustment. Ther efcre
1 am fully persuaded that the very highest sexual unions are
those that are monogamic, and that these are perfect in pro-
portion as they are lasting. N ow, if to this be added the fact
that the highest kind of love is that which is utterly freed
from and devoid of selﬁshness, and whose highest gratiﬁca-
tion come from rendering its object the greatest amount of
happiness, let that happiness depend upon whatever it may,
then you have my ideal of the highest order of love and the
most perfect degree of order to which humanity can attain.
An affection that does not desire to ‘bless its object, instead
of appropriating it by a selﬁsh possession to its own uses, is
not worthy the [name of love. Love is that which exists to
do good, not merely to get good; which is constantly giving
instead of desiring.” -

and out of marriage; means the emancipation of Woman from.

her own body; means the end of her pecuniary dependence
upon man, so that she may never, even seemingly, have to-
procure whatever she may desire or need by sexual favors ;:

murder, of undesired children; means the birth of love»
children only, endowed by every inheritedvvirtue that the
highest exaltatioh can confer at conception, by every inﬂu-
ence for good to be obtained during gestation, and by the.
wisest guidance and instruction on to manhood, industrially,.
intellectually and sexually.”

Mrs. Woodhull did not deliver the lecture announced for"

She did deliver a lecture embodying her ideas on the subject
of true wealth and its distribution. The change of pro-
gramme by the speaker was not alluded to or explained. The

they were soon at their case,’ for in every direction could be
seen others of equal rank. "Throughout the whole lecture
the closest attention was paid to the speaker, and, although
the applause was frequent, upon no occasion wasa sentiment
responded to with a hiss. When Mrs. Woodhull appeared
upon the rostrum many were doubtless surprised in not being
able to discover about her anything of dress or manner to
revile. She was modestly attired in black, with hair gathered
back and hanging loosely. Her style of speaking is earnest.
and such as to impress her auditors with the belief that she
is convinced of the truth of all that she says.

 

[From the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 17, 1875.]

The notable Mns. WOODHULL delivered her second lecture
in McCormick Music-Hall last evening to a large audience.
Following is a sketch of her discourse: [Here followed a
column digest of the lecture.]

 

[From the Chicago Times, Oct. 17, 1875.]
A LECTURE NOT DOWN IN THE BILLS.

On last evening Mrs. Victoria 0. Woodhull appeared, for
the seventh time before a Chicago audience, for the discussion
of these social, moral and political questions with which she
has so long been identiﬁed. At a period not now very re-
mote Mrs. Woodhull made her ﬁrst appearance on the ros-
trum of Chicago, in a city where she had dwelt in poverty,
and endured “ the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”
Since that inauspicious day times have changed, and from the
stand-point of the fair speaker on last evening times must
have changed _for the better. Such vast audiences as assem-
bled on Friday and Saturday evenings to listen to this
priestess in the temple of Truth have never before been
gathered together for a similar purpose in the history of- this
city; and in point of intelligence, respectability and num-
bers they were such. as would have been ﬂattering to the
feeling of any speaker in the land, however distinguished and
reputable. .

A Oh last evening. before the lecture commenced, Mrs.

theories advanced were somewhat communistic, but they
,were_pertinently and :,foreibly expressed, eliciting frequent
applause. The lecture was read from a pamphlet, in a clear
the audience. The lecture contained no hint or allusion to
the peculiar social ideas ‘of the speaker. Some portion of
those present were, doubtless, disappointed at the change of
programme, but they sat the lecture through.

 

[From the Daily News, Aurora, Ill., Oct. 19,1875.]

There was an intelligent audience, three times as large as-"
Anna Dickinson had when she was here, at the Opera House
last evening, to listen to thismost remarkable woman of the»
age. She had chosen for her subject, “ The True and False-,.
Socially,” and under this caption she exposed the lamentable
ignorance which prevails in every household upon the laws of
life. She spoke many plain truths and many excellent moral

ideas do not suit her hearers, and . she possesses those per--
sonal charms of beauty of form and feature which are almost
a necessary adjunct to the highest degree of talent, and an
imposing appearance and a graceful manner, a full and pleas-
ant voice and an animated delivery. But above‘ all she knows
how to make the tritest truths ring with the freshness of im-

is not only earnest but honest in all she says.
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TITUSVILLE, PA.,1875.
Mns. Wooi>nUL:L:

Dear Sister: Although a stranger to you, and one who has-

of duty, or rather impressed by some higher power or agency,
to write to you and‘ express’ my sympathy for you and with
the noble sentiments and principles which you are so cour-
ageously advancing and defending against the whole world

as it" were. It is true there are a few, a very few, who are
capable of understanding and appreciating your pure and

‘truthful teachings in part, but, like the disciples of Jesus,

platform, which was participated. in by several respectable’

weekly newspaper which boila their names. They had been 1

"Sexual freedom means the abolition of prostitution both in.

sexual slavery and her coming into ownership and control of.’ .

last evening, which was" “The Mystery of Life and Death."

and unexceptional style, and was attentively listened to by 1

and practical sentiments. Her dramatic and tragic talent is.
irresistible. She is at all times interesting, even when her

passioned oratory. N oljody who sees her can doubt that she

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they do not see and feel and know the real heighth, depth,
and grandeur contained therein. But how can we wonder
when we consider how the public mind has been educated in
this respect. Social equality and freedom have been hooted
down and denounced. Whenever the bounds of propriety
established by law or custom have been broken over “ The
woman Thou gayest to be with me” she did it. “I have done
nothing wrong. I am all purity and innocence. Do not
throw any stones at me, but out with her. She is not ﬁt to
live. Stone her to death!” “Woe unto you Scribes and
Pharasees, hypocrites; ye can discern the face of the sky,
but cannot discern the signs of the times.” “For the day
cometh that shall burngas an oven; and all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the .day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts; that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that
love my name shall the sun of truth arise with healing in his
rays‘, and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet.”

Ever since I ﬁrst heard of you I have watched for and read
with interest whatever I could procure of yours, and have in
every instance understood and approved. When your Nov. 2
paper appeared I was favored with a copy. I read it, and the
ﬁrst effect cannot be better described than by comparing it
to a thunderbolt, the shock of which had destroy ed two of my
idols. I read it again, and I said these words do_ not convey
her true meaning.‘ This is not a common shallow stream. It
is deep; almost unfathonable! In read and'pondered until
the meaning came; and then I knew and understood the
beauty and grandeur of those principles of vruth,-justice, and
freedom that you have so valiantly hurled against the
strong battlements . which have been so long reared to
encircle, protect, and defend the stronghold of vice, oppress-
ion, fraud, and wrong. And now I am resolved to defend
those principles and you against all opposition as far as my
words and inﬂuence extend. And there are others. Never
was there a truer prophecy uttered than yours: “ You may
succeed in crushing me out, even to the loss of my life, but
from the ashes of my body a thousand Victories will spring
to avenge my death by seizing the work laid down by me and
conveying it forward to victory.” ~

I had resolved to write to you, proffering my love and
sympathy, and that of one or two others. "To-day two
strangers (both women, whose names you will ﬁnd in this
marked) came and requested me to write, so that they might
sign it. If you receive this, and it appears of enough conse-
quence to you, please answer and tell us in what way we can
beneﬁt you. Yours in the cause of truth and right,

Mns. L. '1‘. AKIN’.

 

T BREAKING THE SEALS.
Allitrue friends of the cause of human -good must rejoice

‘that Mrs. Woodhull is still alive and doing so much to en-

lighten and purify the minds’ and hearts of men. The arti-
cles on the Bible and the lecture on “Breaking the Seals ”
are all strengthening and highly educative.

For many years the f,subscriber has understood that the
Garden of Eden was referable to the human body, and that
all persons living were born in the same garden that Adam
and Eve sprang from; that the garden is a condition of phys-
ical life, not a geographical location. I understand this a
great deal better since the revealments given to the world by
Mrs. Woodhull through her recent writings and lectures. She
explains in detail that which I had only a casual or general
knowledge of. My attention was drawn to this matter by the
late Seth Paine, of Chicago, whose knowledge of principles
was absolute and his views on all subjects similar to .Mrs.
Woodhull’s. He was a man of wonderful brain power, and
the mysteries of the Bible were revealed to him so that he
became famous among those who knew him, as a competent
interpreter.

A proper understanding of the Garden of Eden is indeed a
matter of paramount importance, and Mrs. W. must be en-
couraged to go on and open up the common understanding
with reference to it in its physiological and spiritual bearings.
It should be made a plain, teachable matter, a point of
knowledge that all should attain to as a matter of course.

The “divinity made man, male and female, and called than
name Adam. It' has hitherto been “understood by almost
everybody that Adam meant man only, and not woman. But-
the fact is that woman is also comprehended or embraced in
that term. The result of misapprehending _or limiting
the term Adam in its meaning has proven a fatality. On the
strength of such understanding the male has always, without
any natural right to do so, assumed to be the head of the
female. and has dictated her sphere and “ roped her in ”
in a false social system which he had framed for her from the
beginning. He has always denied her equality on account of
her sex, and because he did not consider her as much of a hu-
man being as himself. For asimilar reason the blacks of the

South were denied equality by the whites on the ground of _

color. So the conception of God and right that men have had
all along has been awkwardly limited because of sex and
color. He has been so addled in his short- sightedness that
he could not tell the difference between a man and a thing,
and so for a long time in this country he made human ﬂesh
and blood a matter of barter and sale. ‘

Chicago, Sept. 26, 1875. OGDEN WHITLOGK.

UNIVERSAL BROTHER AND SISTERHOOD.

Dear Weeklgc/—The idea of a brother and sisterhood and the
need of it was, in a general way, shown and presented to
your readers recently by Mrs. Woodhull in one of her articles
on “ Bible Mysteries.” There is room for such a society-—a
universal brother and sisterhood—whose primary object
should be“ to ameliorate the condition of humanity in every
possible manner,” and to unite mankind in one common
brotherhood. There are Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of
Pythias, Knights of Honor, Red Men, Patrons of Industry,
Laborers’ Unions, and many other societies seeking to unite

‘v-ee-

fraternally, and for common interests, the different classes
of society; but it seems none of them are comprehensive
enough; they are not cosmopolitan, do not embrace all man-
kind, but take in only a select few.

One of the missions of the Universal Brother and Sister-
hood will be to unite all these different brotherhoods, and
mankind who cannot now gain admittance to their secret re-
treats, in one common brotherhood. This is a grand
and glorious work to be commenced. Any one who is
at all familiar with the interior and better side of all the
various secret orders that exist to-day know that their prim-
ary object is fraternal association——to do good. A universal
brother and sisterhood, in seeking to ameliorate the condi-
tion of humanity, should labor to discover and then an-
nounce and then maintain the rights of humanity. Is there
any need of such an organization, some asks? Yes, all know
that in union there is strength. The fact that man from time
immemorial has sought. in some manner or other,to form
stable associations-—politica1, social or religious——goes to
prove that it is necessary to form a universal brother and
sisterhood. All business associations are evidences of this fact.
Spiritualists, liberalists and reformers of all classes have done
much in an individual and isolated. way for humanity, but by
uniting their efforts they can do much more. Are they ready
to unite? I think they are, and believe they will. I know
there are minds among us that can elaborate a plan of organ-
ization whichvwill be acceptable to all, and I hope they will
take the matter in hand. Then let us be up and doing.
Don’t sit still, waiting for some one to put the ball in motion,
but those who are favorable to the idea of a universal brother
and sisterhood come out and let it be known. I believe there
are enough in the United States imbued with this idea to go
to work without delay. At all events let us agitate the sub-
ject. I would be pleased to exchange ideas with any of the
brothers and sisters (those who entertain these now I deem
worthy of being called briothers and sisters) by letter at any
time. My address is Central Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Yours,
for progress,  G. H. KREIDER.

 

WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT?

Seated in quiet" abstraction and deep meditation in my own
individual watch-tower, separate and apart from all credal
organizations, casting aside all preconceived theoretical opin-
ions, deeply regretting the troubles and difficulties of man-
kind incidental to their gradual ascent up the spiral pathway
of eternal progression, and earnestly desiring to ﬁnd some
method or avenue to avoid them, I was suddenly aroused to
semi-consciousness by an invisible knocking on the door, ao-
companied by the following vivid impression: “ Mortal, you
are aware that_ for nineteen centuries you have had the pure
and brilliant light of Christ shining down upon you, ren-
dering confusion worse confounded by its dazzling e1ful-
gence and great elevation above the practical grasp of unde-
veloped mortals. We new purpose to unfold for your in-
struction God’s clear, pure, unadulterated light, eliminated
from the proliﬁc womb of nature, rendering transparent all
her hitherto dark and mysterious avenues, ﬁrmly resting on
the basic rock of eternal truth, radiating its divine, majestic
inﬂuence as the tree of life casts its leaves for the ‘healing of
the nations.’ Remember it was long since promised that
this spirit of truth should be sent to lead you into all truth
and foreshadow things which are to come. I will now en-
lighten you respecting that mental telescope presented to
your spiritual perception in a night vision years ago.

“Its body is composed of matter, its lenses of spiritual sub-
stance. Beware! that the material part be kept perfectly
clean and well burnished and the spiritual lenses carefully
and accurately adjusted, else you will see things more dis-
torted (if possible) than through the dark and muddy media of
church, State_’and professional craft.

“ Be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. Adieu.”

Returning to full consciousness, preparing my telescope as
directed, and bringing it to-bear with the axis of vision, I
saw nought but Egyptian darkness as black as Erebus. Pres-
ently gleams of light appeared, continuing to increase until
Lucifer, the son of morning, lit up the Eastern horizon with a
light rivalingthe meridian sun. Anon. a beautiful female
(typifying Herodias) dancing before the king (our Govern-

' ment_), which so pleased him that he proposed to grant; her

request, even to the equal half of his kingdom. Instead of
which she modestly requested the head of John the Baptist
(the churchs’ head) in a charger. I was much astonished at
this apparently bloody and unnatural request. Further ob-
servation revealed the important palpable fact that by this
ruseshe effectually opened the door and removed the main
stumbling-block to her entrance and taking possession of
the equal half of government, to which by birth she was

justly entitled. WATCHMAN,
FREMONT, Ind. V

[From the N.  Sun, Oct. 23. 1875.]
THE END OF THE SCANDAL SUITS.

A NOLLE PROSEQUI ENTERED IN THE CASES OF BEECHER
AGT. MOULTON, THE PEOPLE AG-T. MOULTON, AND THE
PEOPLE AGT. TILTON.

District Attorney Britten appeared before Judge N eilson
Yesterday and, holding a bunch of indictments in his hand,
said:

If theCourt please, it has been my practice while perform-
ing the duties of District Attorney of this county, whenever
there was an indictment pending, the trial of which would,
for any cause, most surely not result in a. conviction, nor in
any public beneﬁt, to move for anolle in the case. This prac-
tice is founded upon a principle which I believe to be mani-
festly just and without exception in its application. The
facts invoking it being clearly established, whether the
accused desire to be tr_ied or not, or whether the accuser

/fade sires that he should be so tried can have no legitimate influ

once upon a District Attorney representing not individual
interests but those of the aggregate people. * * *

Prompted exclusively by these sentiments, I movelthat a

Nov. 6, 1875.

nolle prosequi be entered in the case of the People agains
Moulton, which is an indictictment for an alleged libel against
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. ‘F =’v‘ * * i‘ *

Justice Neilson’s reply was; _

The motion is granted. I think it proper to say that, re-
cognizing that the questions involved in such cases rest largely
in the judgment and discretion of the prosecutor represent-
ing the people, in this particular case the views expressed and
the course proposed to be pursued by the District Attorney
are proper, and commend themselves to our judgment as a
fair and just exercise of the discretion necessarily vested in
him. The clerk will make the proper entry.

Mr. Britton——I make a similar motion in the case of the
People against Moulton, for alleged libel against a lady of
this community. '

Judge N eilson~—That motion is also granted.

Mr. Britton—I have still another motion of the same kind
in the case of the People against Tilton for alleged libel
against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. '

Judge Nei1son—-That motion is granted likewise, and the
proper entries will be made. * “ A

The scandal is thus taken out of the courts, except so much
of it as is involved in the indictments for perjury against
Joseph Loader and John J. Price, the upholsterers. These
Indictments are to be tried next month. I ,

Mr. Moulton was out of town yesterday. A member of
Plymouth Church last evening spoke of the District Attor-
ne_v’s action with pleasure, and added that Mr. Beecher was
very magnanimous not to press the indictments, and had
acted like a Christian gentleman in allowing Tilton and
Moulton to go free. “ Now,” continued he, “ if the Sun will
only let us have peace we will be content. I can’t under-
stand why 125,000 people want to read that paper.”

This quashing of the indictments amounts to an admission
of adultery on the part of Henry Ward Beecher, while it
adds nothing to his reputation as respecting the sanctity of
an oath.

PENNSYLVANIA JUSTICE !

Robert Sinnickson was arrested a few months ago at the
Bushkill Community, in Pike County, on a charge of tres-
pass, and conﬁned in jail to await trial which came off at
Milford, September 29 and 30. The verdict of the jury was,
“ Not guilty; defendant to pay one-half the costs." It must
be very gratifying to Mr. S., after enduring the indignity of
arrest and suffering a conﬁnement of four weeks and more
in the county jail for an alleged offense of which he was
found not guilty, to be allowed the privilege of contributing
one-half the expense of his trial at a place twenty miles dis-
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‘ Mas. ISABELLA Bnnonnn HOOKER preached to a crowded
congregation at the Bridgeport Universalist Church, last Sun-
day, on “The Ministry of Angels.”-—N. Y. Sun.

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Chap. 1.-—Riva1 Claims of the Saviors.

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