Show NEW RIMMED exemplified 4 tl mrs E lynn linton discusses fin do de siccle morals I 1 INITIAL POINT 0 OF F divergence the heavenly the pre i cursor of a new era virtue and innocence to be no nore more are old time restrictions dying tsway away arid Is a night of the I 1 individual 1391 by johnson all Bachel lerl I 1 in civilized countries men have bave not generally gloried in their offenses against the moral law when they tripped they did not call a crowd to witness to their fall nor vaunt it as a better way of cf going than upright walkine ine still less keeping themselves clean did not induce others to berin car ar themselves themi elves vos with mud n nor or old lid they endeavor to show allow that this mud was a b beautiful anil and lehoe substance and that to lemear with filuk was walk much the same thins thing as to crown with rn nd ind be tha diadem domed ed with rubles R n it ip t or virtue has hitherto therlo hl obtained v n anong the backsliders back sliders of 0 those thone i where society was founded on certain well dellied benned ethical principles and it if this has been truo true vt of the how much more thon then of 0 tile practically innocent it Is df di Terent ferent I 1 I 1 11 1 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 alz ilz IT 0 tp d 11 1 1 nt av 11 W I 1 a I 1 I 1 A fl I 1 1 1 ai k 4 i 1 I 1 1 I 1 n I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 mrs 33 lynn iyan linton inton Ii with ui kif english folks at the end ot of the oln nin t nth nil n alv lva we of tills self I 1 in de CIL who openly adv n as among the lights r th ill nin t jiuu bidual and as openly deride th i ume dine restrictions by 11 i and purity have hitherto bi TUII when we lie will aul not one of the borin rm landmarks land maiks d dividing wing the ln in nin the forbidden forbidden ha has been liitt left in us os pal pa in the home and d in the an irr rr ts is in the press and I 1 in parliament LrI lament a ar n ir ir gitil u d doctrines which upset lit all e ot iii me ing anil and introduce a a of 0 the decalogue ano UL uc S once mule made oliNg obligatory atory are now n ni i w ts r in the beld toe mutual inter ap d aden w ot of the various members of the disel disciplined plino ln in ur LOr action which makes the general good of df more account than individual delre have given place 0 to o an un lle liek ked cd C which destroys deal roys the v ry roo of oc organization the good of the community counts for nothing at all and the desire delre of oc the individual sweeps the board the due su b of inferiority the hie rightful richt ful or and tiie the authority ot the headship of man and alki fitting functions of women the grace of patience the modesty of hu bu the reticence of maidenhood in a ln courage of ecla restraint m respect foi UH LJ law loyalty and ell all form of obedience tn in short sanin have vanished from our code instead of that is s tf if r respect in scalf control which used to 0 o lt he the martuc practiced by pagans like marcus aurelius Au rellus and christians liki sidney and more and thoin than wu we hear bear only of the right of the individual to live ilvo such kind of alte alfe us aa he shw deem best for his own happiness but we disguise this apothem apotheosis obis of self under tho the name of democratic evolution of the llie new hedonism of neo radical ism sm of the duty we owe ourselves alvea in our gown development and tile the full use of our liberty and when dethrow off all 94 T and al abandon landon our appointed duties they bore us ue it then we C call 41 it stepping out or of the all dolls 3 house the wide nobility of alf culture and we applaud that act or of undutiful egotism as if it were as derwe as it Is in r mity base abany of the dramas and much of the on till outbreak ak of egotism devoid of principle and strip pd are of aalf the throb of tahe public go with the cieu roth who cannot fand hap in duty duly nor rest in love and who will N vot not abek it in om employment tho the m nauroth who w wreak mo its every ones because she h Is lioret red and n boredom om Is if the living eln bill waldi wha crime the me second sirs mrs Tan query Is understood and tout lout com prendre est tout pardon ncr gratitude or consideration tor for others doe not enter into inlo the plo plue ture lo in thu tho of self what place c has any form of humdrum hum drunk virtue this his uPset upsetting zing of old did principles gives a Q aspect to lo life at once bewildering and ii 19 there really no such tiling thing us an elemental lc mental no difference between right and wrong tor for the aimmie teason leason that la Is right but as we make it nothing wrong wrone it if ire ira desire it are tt the 0 virtues which christ taught mere scarecrows scare crows put up by age and authority the ti better to subdue youth and insubordination or were they the the of the higher law of life and tho the truer wisdom isdo int filial obeal anee tor for example la 13 such an ob 1 or are parents the enemies enc slid and tyrants of their children who are therefore in their right to defy and oppose them it Is true that the reason why grandfathers and grandsons are generally good friends Is because tile alliev have a common enemy in the son if of the one and the rather father of the other As for mothers and daughters we have it on the testimony of one no who speaks with aut authority bority the former are n pathetic path etil lestr lclive coercive beyond reason ind the latter are therefore ju jus tined li I 1 their ale aie 1 in n theli lihi when lh ahoy y demand the d dan n B agn i n i embodied in the nym hol of ui th cihkey ail Ih h key the purity of malden hood hand wil bou a up lip in its ignorance of tain mi all and facts of life which in n 11 0 il a men and motherly molli erty women r i bins most precious pra clous po n alrh ch only devils would rob h hi r ihn 11 0 purity in ignorance iB norance has come a to 10 W b a ab anroku aroln roku idol open the nood flood wit 0 of mo 1110 il A niah faill to tile llie young girl ro F from dait D t let il 1 mind attune itself to those thom keyn 1 if i which tile the modern tin W nau nail aril for the enlightenment or of bi kudern 40 irl lel her dabble in it the i iii wro kago which our young men arto rte out of the depths of their 11 i n till d let the r distinction b tween the and the rif nr the atreo tsi lie be noldia doam and under ilia delu I 1 I 1 ale plea e of f tho the protective power of knowledge e let th 0 lady girl gir learn leall beall betimes times t that at the guner utter bred hall ha mas tred t red from the beginning in the apotheosis bosis of 0 immorality now fashionable this mental defloration has its own place of honor and the premature initiation Iti atlon Is one ot of the rays raya ot or the abl internal infernal aureole about the head ot of the modern woman yet yd whom where dora the balance of practical immorality lie lie with the tha conscious free and in instructed astrel c or r with I 1 the and ignorant Igo orant jady airl ask a school what is 1 the eften i of 0 a knowing girl on ail the tha minds of oc the ignorant one JY y in certain things which some among g ys us now say all me unmarried marri ylo ag III arlland gw arl tand lier her ap pi p 1 i ewer awer ought to settle that question llon lor for shere Is 1 not a capable and understand ng jag wonia in all england who has to deal with who does doca net know tire infinite evil of ibis theoretical binl instead of protection it Is incitement cit ement filling the mind with thoughts and speculations destructive or of all that JC L 1 Is most desirable to preserve to those sho IK still respect reaped the purity ot of the tha young and who think that the somewhat desolating knowledge of life ai 14 it la Is should come by degrees skid and according to ie anil and requirement these the theories oriel ot of premature the this advocacy ot of unlimited freedom in latchkeys latch keys and balls halls the right of 0 translating the new hedonism into letlon the ghe right of sharing haring in 1 the pur pursuits the pleasures the professions pro eona the whole life of man no that nothing shall be lawful in it the one which Is 13 forbidden to the other this demoralizing doctrine which yet jet mothers themselves have not been ashamed to read IA 1 simply the beginning ot of thy the ond and that end in IB death drowned in that millrace of impurities forever the virginity of 0 innocence innocenc ce the maidenhood of the mind and there is no spell by which either can bere be restored waca the secret of virgillus Is 13 discovered and the old can be male made young aaen aln then will vall that sweet inno cence which premature initiation lakes from our resto restored redi then arid a rid not till then meanwhile the revolted daughters encouraged by those who should lead them aright spurn all 1 ad vice and fling off till all restraints ignorant of 0 their loss in refinement as well al ai in essential purity As for kellne ment the stories that c crop about g society now of the i souls louls and now of the heroines the astounding things they pay ay and the inconceivable things they tary do 20 show us that this la is fast becoming one of the oat lost arts of life when vulgar slang and common oaths can be put into the mouths months of actresses on the stage we ave have not n A far to so go to find their prototypes in the drawing ro room the apotheosis of self has hag i cached its culminating point to in politics for fear of the adverse vote the advocates of violence and spoliation are arc left freo free to terrify the tin tarald 1 with hostile dem and truculent threats the me friends fri enila of dynamiters dynamite dyna miters rg and those dyn la miters them themselves serves are given a ropo rope so BO long that it wl will III n never ever be sufficient ly shortened shor teneil for their and the whole rabble rout of 0 anarchists aral tore IM find and are interfered with no more than it if they were 0 fl nest ot of chattering plea pies swaying in the topmost bra branches nolies of an old oak tree save sava for rort Rose berys 0 firm n neo whelk fit a the foreign office mark only comparative the ministry will stand out in history as the most unpatriotic uc c have ever bad the lias h is been sold not to a foreign 01 a power ponca but to the die forces of disorder and the avent garde of anarchy anA rahy rohy there has aven no DO respect reaped for private property national or OT OAt lonal honor true freedom other either in debate or in liberty of contrad contract balk been ignored by the party parly calling itself pax par excellence liberal and we have to go back two hundred years and more to the insolent interference with the freedom of discussion and tile the irest besl traditions or parliamentary dignity with which the llie glad slon I 1 tans ans have conducted public busl ti and servile followers who have voted aa they were bidden albeit against their condic adone and who have crouched like ike dogs beneath tile the whip of tile the irish party they call these nien men who have madcone wonder had a drop of the brave old english bloma in them loyal observers sc 0 or parliamentary discipline meantime Mean the lie empire suffers buffers and the eternal belittling of certain noisy daisy detractors tra tractors clors gives our enemies cause to rejoice among oni whole ministry from first to last there has not been one reali patriotic patr tolle imperialist and nothing but the force of public publia opinion out of doors backed by the coga beel of the upper alouse has prevented a 0 disintegration of tile the empire which would have been thi the first let act in tho the hideous drama of our national decay The tenderness felt by certain people for criminals Is 13 also part and parce parac I of this tame apotheosis of the individual with justice right and law trampled tiAm piea under foot the murdered victim ties ilea in his moody bloody shroud but sympathizing signatories signa tories rush in eager crowds to back the position petition tor for mercy to 10 tho the murderer some inen speak feelingly of the cruel at strangling of this poor creature or that caught c red handed in bome diabolical pity the only christian virtue cultivate dby by the decadents deca dents has attained attal nud die disproportionate r kopor it Is aarons lod which iwa lows up n lit 1 the rest this Is baca because use we are weak and flabby and have not nerve enough to inflict due dua pun because bebau ee too we have grown tolerant to the weakness of human in nature and crime like vice Is so very vary human you know it la is not because we are christ like ilke and tamest earnest to ove live after the high law of mercy we pity the pain of the individual more than we loathe crime and dis dishonor bonor we forget the tha ruin the heartbreak perhaps the suicide fi gium rn despair of thousands sands in our for the die conviction of the one who has been their hilr un doir and we shudder at the gilnor dis comforts of poverty us AS a more manly time did not revolt from larger tortures tills this excessive sympathy with unpleasant conditions has its rise in the new hedonism which alch prea preaches cheIt ease and luxury and pleasure and gratification of our appetites pass passions lons and senses as the nineteenth century gospel of glad tidings the restraints restraint of discipline the denials of prudence prudence how bow disagreeable they arel re now flow mu lucli c li more jolly it is to do just as an we I 1 like ike best without regard to that fussy fossali fossli fossil mrs grundy with her stupid old moral maxims preaching doan not nol a daughters heart this time but her wild desire for or freedom and elpel lance fence and say gay the promoters of this now new apotheosis it if folk do desh desire e this unrestricted freedom why on oil earth may they not have it in these days when nothing should be borbi orb lUen which any one wishes to have or do morality istead Is dead therefore immorality does not exi exist t I 1 it t Is tho the doctrine of tho the anarchists anar cills is all through itis the law alone that creates s nn in talce take away the law and everything would be permissible bei ca cause use nothing would be prohibited throw down do wil the park halings palings and level the garden garde wa wall with wilb the highroad and puni punishment shaf ent to tor tresi trespass ass would not ex cx hit wit without hout individual e aly there would hi no robbery without government idora would the n no 0 disobedience t vital authority Is 13 not a light filial undutiful nelis Is not a wrong it if modesty la Is not a virtue immodesty Is 11 not 0 t a vice so the chain of reasoning drags along and moral morality LY a dead letter amorally nora llly I 1 into n to nothing nera T thin la disinter dis intel or of the moral life passes with pome for progress evolution liona a parting with the old cra cramped aped form to ammi into deer kwider v larl higher those who have taken suit nuit and ser viell under tho the naw ni w banner themselves on their courage anad and look with nith contempt on the tha humdrum followers of the old but in reality their new method lj IA tho the si act tins ling free of those activities or of corruption which we roa trana and alid death roi ri lease it li 11 not lie butterfly butterf iv etner pr ing from rom the chry willa which it pl as a those others to we have tio no long m the subordination the interaction lati thi IN ollor the rhythmical divel plino of 0 a I 1 living organism where the various members fulfill their several functions anet and harmony of relation produces produce the se of coordinated co enerio anerk we have instead the crowding and vt of those llor lom tit of putrefaction which creace caw te tho the loath joath some of corruption which yet la Is intense activity of the individual and disintegrating kind the old order illeth rather than cha ch anseth ngeth and the vidrios of 0 moral putrefaction are arc in gull full activity in time we may comei 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