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...cised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of money ma... ...e unendurable, and she rolled out and marched about her room and whispered abuse of her- self—usually until she hit against some article of furniture....

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... intellectual careless- 6 God The Invisible King ness back to the idea of sexual filiation. And it may further be suggested that the extreme aloof- n... ...ace, their angers against disorder and their desire for the avenger; their sexual passions and perplexities. . . . Each of these great systems of need... ... IS NO 9. GOD IS NO 9. GOD IS NO 9. GOD IS NOT SEXU T SEXU T SEXU T SEXU T SEXUAL AL AL AL AL IN THE LAST two or three hundred years there has been a ... ...a very considerable disentanglement of the idea of God from the complex of sexual thought and feeling. But in the early days of religion the two thing... ...heir God at this or that little dirtiness or irregularity or breach of the sexual tabus. The ceremony of circumcision is clearly indicative of the ori... ...at theory and prac- tice clear and plain to ordinary men, of reforming the abuses of the profession by working for the separation of bar and judiciary...

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... and reason has been also a trend away from a superstitious treat- ment of sexual questions and a recognition, so to speak, that a woman’s “a man for ... ... to the pitch of crisis. There have always been two extreme aspects of the sexual debate. There have always been the oversexed women who 90 What Is C... ...p- ters of “The World’s Worst Failure.” The former is an ex- travagance of sexual mysticism. Man can never understand women. Women always hide deep an... .... It is a hearty outbreak against that apparent necessity for elegance and sexual specialisation that undercuts so much feminine achievement, that red... ...minist faction is the periodic appearance of a little ill-printed sheet of abuse about the chief Foreign Office people, resembling in manner and appea... ... way the issue will fall. The human being is going to carry it against the sexual being. The struggle is going to be extensive and various and prolong... ...l opinion of the matter in their very insults. They will not use a word of abuse for the Germans as Germans; they call them “Huns,” because they are t...

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...at laid waste human happiness (such as slavery, and many hundreds of other abuses that might be mentioned), the rule evidently acted upon by the Found... ...TURY Y Y Y Y IN THE PERSON of this Mr. Schlosser is exemplified a com- mon abuse, not confined to literature. An artist from the Italian opera of Lond... ...nine voy- ages crowding into one pocket volume, he cannot really have much abused his professional license for being dull. Indeed, one has to look out... ...ed from other passages) is—because an interest derived from the passion of sexual love can rarely be found on the Greek stage, and yet cannot be dispe... ...ain, with regard to the other sex, corporal punishment is its peculiar and sexual degradation; and if ever the distinction of Donne can be applied saf...

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...eness of our class govern- ments in the English language, that whenever an abuse becomes oppressive enough to persuade our party parliamentarians that... ...morals. In par- ticular, I regard much current morality as to economic and sexual relations as disastrously wrong; and I re- 23 Shaw gard certain doc... ... conspirator who assassinated the head of the Ro- man State not because he abused his position but 29 Shaw solely because he occupied it, thus affirm... ...and foulness of mouth, they might be trusted by theatrical managers not to abuse the powers of the common informer. As it is, it has been found nec- e... ...cing. 9. In order to prevent the powers of the licensing au- thority being abused so as to constitute a virtual cen- sorship, any Act transferring the... ...ble and successful man- agers like Mr. Alexander, who know nothing of such abuses, and deny, with perfect sincerity and indig- nant vehemence, that th...

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...feeling or of interest in favour of it, than of any other of the customary abuses of force: for its motive was the love of gain, unmixed and undis gu... ...rates all attempts to maintain the power but protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has bee... ... of all indi vidual will into the hands of a man, as an essential part of sexual attractiveness. Can it be doubted that any of the other yokes which ... ...rates all attempts to maintain the power but protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has bee... ...John Stuart Mill 21 will into the hands of a man, as an essential part of sexual attractiveness. Can it be doubted that any of the other yokes which ... ...m, the breadth and depth of human misery caused in this shape alone by the abuse of the institution swells to some thing appalling. Yet these are onl... ...ction of Women by John Stuart Mill 56 and preventing also the scandalous abuse of the mar riage institution, which is perpetrated when a man entrap...

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... sin is inadmissible. It is necessary in some way or other to regulate the sexual relations; but there exists no other foundation than the old one, in... ...it is woman who chooses. As soon as she is in possession of her means, she abuses them, and acquires a terrible supremacy.” “But where do you see this... ...o fan this sensuality into a strong, consuming flame, with the result that sexual vices and diseases have come to be the normal conditions of the peri... ... neighbor replied in the same angry manner, and finally the women began to abuse each other and call vile names. It happened that old Ivan’s wife, on ... ... her voice heard. As soon as she appeared on the scene, she, too, began to abuse her neighbor, reminding her of many dis- agreeable things which had h... ...wice again detected in similar escapades. By this time the people began to abuse him, and the clerk of the court threatened to recruit him into the ar... ...nd whom they threatened to enroll as a soldier—the same man whom every one abused, and said he was lazy, and who was pointed out as a thief and given ...

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...but this is not a justified and in- tended part of the situation: it is an abuse of Capitalism which nobody defends in principle. As between child and... ...thing from them. Here, again, as at so many points, we come up against the abuse of schools to keep people in ignorance and error, so that they may be... ...ls until last year (1913), when in what must be described as a paroxysm of sexual excitement pro- voked by the agitation concerning the White Slave Tr... ...prod- uct of Natural Selection; and though there is no viler crime than to abuse them, yet there is no greater cruelty than to ignore them. I have com... ...der the main danger of childish docility and parental officious- ness. The Abuse of Docility DOCILITY MAY SURVIVE as a lazy habit long after it has ce... ...riests, absolute mon- archs, and despots of every sort, is the tendency to abuse natural docility. A nation should always be healthily rebel- lious; b... ...love is as innocent as the love of a child: the exclusion of all conscious sexual feeling from it does not ex- clude the bitterness, jealousy, and des... ...- clude the bitterness, jealousy, and despair at loss which char- acterize sexual passion: in fact, what is called a pure love may easily be more self... ...pens now oftener than it used to, because people remain much longer in the sexual arena. The cultivated Jewess no longer cuts off her hair at her marr...

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...ed beneficially to the settlement of the ques- tion at issue. Law, and the abuses of law, good statutes and evil customs, had equally thrown the publi... ...c press, have been gathered, except from the parties interested in all its abuses, but also because these parties (a faction amongst the equestrian or... ...ion of faith that he has over his own hearth. But his hearth can rarely be abused; whereas his religious system, being a vast kingdom, opening by imme... ...to have pow- ers over religious truth—which it never had, or can have— any abuse of such a power would be thoroughly neutralized. The case resembles t... ...uarter, had it not been for the feminine arrogance that misinterpreted and abused that indulgence. The miscalculation, in fact, of Judas Iscariot—supp... ...pacities: ‘Molle meum levibus cor est violabile relis;’ it was the seat of sexual pas- sion; but nobler and more reflective sensibilities inhabited th...

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...y no adequate word but the word magnificent, (a word too often and lightly abused.) In reality, speaking of women, I have seen many beautiful figures,... ...n with that chivalrous homage which at any rate was due to her sex and her sexual perfections, a love for herself on my part, which was in its nature ... ...ome appeal to these men in their official characters, admonished me not to abuse my privilege of the moment. After returning thanks, there- fore, for ... ...ert) could effectually interpose for his rescue, the mob had so used or so abused the opportunity they had long wished for, that he remained the mere ... ...man punishments. Now, our wicked friend the fanatic, who calumniates Kate, abuses the advan- tage which, for such a purpose, he derives from the exagg... ... people. But I tell that sycophantish fanatic—not this only, viz., that he abuses un- fairly, against Kate, the advantage which he has from the inevit...

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...whatever in convincing us that Shakespear was a man of normal constitution sexually, and was not the victim of that most cruel and pitiable of all the... ...owards earls, a sycophant; and, second, that the normality of Shakespear’s sexual constitution is only too well attested by the excessive susceptibili... ...ion of such a thing, except in the method of appointing constables, to the abuses in which he called attention quite in the vein of the Fabian Society...

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...y is over. Passion, the life of drama, means nothing to them but primitive sexual excitement: such phrases as “impassioned poetry” or “pas- sionate lo... ...ign, that); preaching, but not preaching submission; daring ill- usage and abuse, but not putting up with more of it than is inevitable; and practisin... ...in his power to escape from it, whilst he is still quite ready to meet the abuse of the old woman by attempting to smash a mug on her face. And that i...

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... which accord- ingly they bemoan, deride, despise, or, as usually happens, abuse: he, who succeeds in hitting off the weakness of the human mind more ... ... proper place. For the present I wish to revert to those, who would rather abuse or deride human emotions than understand them. Such persons will, dou... ...ire and love of riches. XLVIII. “Lust” is desire and love in the matter of sexual inter- course. Explanation—Whether this desire be excessive or not, ... ... bitious, or a timid man may abstain from excess in eating, drink- ing, or sexual indulgence, yet avarice, ambition, and fear are not contraries to lu...

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...s might be expected from the difference in their no- tions of propriety in sexual relations. In short, if Byron leaves you with an impression that he ... ... certainly have said that their parts needed no acting. Everything has its abuse as well as its use. It is also to be considered that great plays live...

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...oards of Mrs Warren and Gretchen and the rest; in short, for banishing the sexual instincts from the stage altogether. Those who think this impossible... ...rupulous play- wrights. I challenge Mr Redford to mention any extremity of sexual misconduct which any manager in his senses would risk presenting on ... ... as the two described above would have a monopoly of the theatre as far as sexual interest is concerned. What is more, the repulsiveness of the worst ... ...ot kept under some form of tutelage, the more childish the better, he will abuse his freedom viciously. As far as its principle is concerned, the Cens...

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...ight comes the Wanderer, whom the dwarf, recognizing his despoiler of old, abuses as a shameless thief, taunting him with the helpless way in which al... ... is a sentiment of affec- tionate benevolence which has nothing to do with sexual passion. It might, and in fact does exist in the absence of any sexu... ... process to poetic love only by following it back to its alleged origin in sexual passion, the emotional phenomena of which he has expressed in music ... ... sword in hand, but simply Love, and not even Shelleyan love, but vehement sexual passion. It is highly significant of the ex- tent to which this uxor...

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...r … the wooden man was watching us. When I came abreast of them, expecting abuse, I was sur- prised by the older’s saying quietly “We haven’t far to g... ...omplished, the figures wandered back, greeted with a volley of ejaculatory abuse from the invisible co-occupants of my new sleeping-apartment; and dis... ... of a planton was, so long as I inhabited La Ferté, the only case in which abuse of the weaker sex was punished. That attempts at abuse were frequent ... ...t, its movements nor graceful nor awkward. It came and went with a certain sexual velocity, a velocity whose 117 e e cummings health and vigour made ... ...dly shout- ing face framed in its huge night of dishevelled hair, her deep sexual voice, hoarsely strident above the din and smoke, shouting fiercely ... ...ure as God in His skillful and infinite wisdom ever created. Her intensely sexual face greeted us nearly always as we descended pour la soupe. She wou...

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...e jury, how carefully they should use the rights and how they ought not to abuse them, about their being on their oath, that they were the conscience ... ...ng the red-haired woman by the skirt, attentively listened to the words of abuse that the women and the convicts flung at each other, and repeated the... ...other end of the shelf beds, accompanying every word with frightfully vile abuse. “Mind you don’t get it again,” Korableva replied, also adding words ... ...se. “Mind you don’t get it again,” Korableva replied, also adding words of abuse, and both were quiet again. “Had I not been stopped I’d have pulled y... ...followed from Korableva. Then again a 123 Tolstoy short interval and more abuse. But the intervals became longer and longer, as when a thunder-cloud ... ...e Katusha. These women were also united by the repulsion they both felt to sexual love. The one loathed that kind of love, having experienced all its ... ...451 Tolstoy and the uniting them with the wives and husbands of others for sexual intercourse; by shooting or hanging them. To those who were deprived...

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...uld mirror whatever is good in the life within. Temperance, tolerance, and sexual equality were intelligible cries to them; whereas they did not follo... ...ret, with her packing to do, focussed the conversation on Henry. She might abuse Henry behind his back, but please would she always be civil to him in... ...k of self-control. In a long letter she pointed out the need of charity in sexual matters; so little is known about them; it is hard enough for those ...

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...o wait five or six hours …. I used to keep awake whole nights cursing that abuse. My wife used to run—she never, in whatever else she may have misled ... ...olent, overbearing, vain, drunken, arrogant, and monstrously a prey to his sexual necessities. And, at hearing of the miseries her aunt had suffered—f...

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...r, a gentle charitable man scarcely realized his power, and never tried to abuse it. Mr. Wilbraham, the agent, was of another mould. He knew his place... ...Stephen was the fruit of sin; therefore he was sinful, He, too, be- came a sexual snob. And now he must hear the unsavoury details. That evening they ...

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...r. Authority 21 D.H. Lawrence was hateful to him, therefore he could only abuse the pit- managers. He would say, in the Palmerston: “Th’ gaffer come ... ...lds to the village and the sea. She was afraid of the plank bridge, and he abused her for being a baby. On the whole he stuck to her as if he were her... ...or. At times they both broke off to sneeze, and first one, then the other, abused his horse. Miriam was impatient of men. It took so little to amuse t... ... shoulders in scorn of his work. She maddened him. He was furious. Then he abused her, and went into passionate exposition of his stuff. This amused a... ...ssarily he could not speak to his mother. He had a life apart from her—his sexual life. The rest she still kept. But he felt he had to conceal somethi...

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...ts majorities is never more disastrous than when there is some question of sexual morals to be dealt with. The business of a democratic statesman is n... ...ve to succeed unless it includes the recogni- tion of an absolute right to sexual experience, and is un- tainted by the Pauline or romantic view of su... ... necessary under existing circumstances for a woman without property to be sexually attractive, because she must get married to secure a livelihood; a... ... because she must get married to secure a livelihood; and the illusions of sexual attraction will cause the imagination of young men to endow her with... ...only expressing inaccu- rately a very real need for the disentanglement of sexual rela- tions from a mass of exorbitant and irrelevant conditions impo... ...D MANNERS On the other hand, we have all seen the bonds of marriage vilely abused by people who are never classed with shrews and wife-beaters: they a... ... our present plan of trying to force human nature into a mould of existing abuses, superstitions, and corrupt interests, pro- duces the explosive forc... ...religious heterodoxy , contagious disease, outrages, indignities, personal abuse, “mental an- guish,” conduct rendering life burdensome and so forth (...

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...medial suggestion made with this particular outcry; it is merely a gust of abuse and insult for schools, and more particularly board schools, carrying... ... We must have not only the fullest treatment of the temptations, vanities, abuses, and absurdities of office, but all its dreams, its sense of constru... ... that chance it fell to him to give the world a noun and an adjec- tive of abuse, “Utopian,” and to record how under the stimu- lus of Plato’s releasi... ...ngs appear disposed to a fierce proprietorship in their children and their sexual partners, and in no respect is the ordinary mortal so easily induced... ...ng the late Samuel Butler, meets this difficulty by the most extrava- gant abuse of parents. He would have us believe that the worst enemies a child c... ...rse, if our divorce law exists mainly for the gratification of the fiercer sexual resentments, well and good, but if that is so, let us abandon our pr... .... And while on the one hand existing divorce laws appear to be obsessed by sexual offences, other things of far more evil ef- fect upon the home go wi... ...bout large, and to cultivate a morbid ob- session in the necessary dawn of sexual consciousness. So far from wanting to stimulate the imagination, he ... ...ffensive women and a high development of that personal morality which puts sexual continence and al- coholic temperance before any public virtue. It i...

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...ontemporary English drama, forced to deal almost exclusively with cases of sexual attraction, and yet forbidden to exhibit the incidents of that attra... ...t in a drama which, with all its preoccupation with sex, is really void of sexual interest, good looks are more de- sired than histrionic skill. Let m... ...this essence I have no control. You propound a certain social sub- stance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distil it for yo... ...im in imagination and cunning. The Don Juan play, however, is to deal with sexual attrac- tion, and not with nutrition, and to deal with it in a socie... ... to male hypocrisy in this mat- ter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexual immu- nities are made acutely humiliating to him. When the ter- ribl... ...ss arrangements are subject to the approval of your Trade Union. But don’t abuse your advantages. Let me remind you that Voltaire said that what was t...

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...ionless benches, supplying the place of pews, and the broad aisle formed a sexual division, impass- able except by children beneath a certain age. Pea... ...our own consciences, and not of yours. Were we to act otherwise, we should abuse your trust, even in complying with your wishes.” The mother looked do...