Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes.

  • Edward Carpenter
Date:
1915
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Credit: Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impossible for him to look before and after as he should do, or bring to a proper focus a whole field of considerations. In all this he is a mere child: and evidently by himself unfit to rule the world. In many respects the newer Women and the Workmen resemble each other. Both have been bullied and sat upon from time immemorial, and are beginning to revolt; both are good at detailed and set or customary work, both are bad at organi¬ sation; both are stronger on the emotional than on the intellectual side; and both have an ideal of better things, but do not quite see their way to carry it out. Their best hope perhaps lies in their both getting hold of the Well-to-do Man and thumping him on each side till they get him to organise the world for them. T he latter has no ideal, no object, no enthusiasm, of his own. He cannot set himself to work; and consequently he is just made use of by the commercial spirit of the day. It is really lamentable to think how his great organising capacity—which might create a holy Human empire of the world—is simply at present the tool of the Jew and the Speculator. In Par¬ liamentary, Military, Indian, Home or Colonial politics, the quondam public school-boy is just led by the nose by the money - grubbing interest, to
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