Lysistrata : $b or, Woman's future and future womanLudovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Philosophy
Lysistrata : $b or, Woman's future and future woman
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Women; Women -- Social and moral questions
We may expect a revival of agriculture and craftsmanship, because one of
the first things to be done is to arrest the dry-rot in spirit and body,
which industrial and urban conditions have brought about under the sway
of the body-despising values. Men will learn to respect themselves once
more, and this they can do only by expressing their highest impulses in
their work. They will become agriculturists and craftsmen again, because
this is the only way by which they can recover their dignity, their lost
faculties, and their vanished health.
We can also expect that science instead of concentrating, as now, upon
providing us with ever more efficient extra-corporeal equipment such as
wireless telegraphy, aeroplanes, etc., and more and more substitutes and
aids for our defective bodies, will turn its research in the direction
of restoring to man bodily perfection and to _extending the range of his
faculties_. It will probe the mystery of powers like clairvoyance, and
direct healing (such as that effected by the laying on of hands from
time immemorial); it will discover the mechanism (if any) behind
telepathy and behind the peculiar magnetism of cultivated will-power,
and discover an educational technique by which these properties and
powers may become more general, more efficient, and more far-reaching.
It will seek the method behind the laws of heredity, and establish
principles whereby family and stock qualities may be brought to
perfection. It will also sift the mass of evidence and facts collected
by modern science, in order to co-ordinate the data, and establish lines
of proper conduct and legitimate aspiration. Finally, it will aim at
co-ordinating religious and naturalistic truths up to date, with the
view of offering to mankind a new faith, and a new metaphysic, purged of
the sick and degenerate elements of former religions.
Recognizing that æstheticism is an essential part of terrestrial life,
the possession and expression of beauty will no longer be relegated to
certain sections of the community, but will be made a part of the
national life. The Puritanical prejudice against beauty and its lure
will be exploded, and beauty will be cultivated in the human body as an
indispensable factor in a happy life. The old Puritanical belief that it
is possible to have a beautiful soul, a beautiful character, and a
beautiful mind in an ugly body with evil-smelling breath, will have to
be recognized for what it is—that is, merely a _credo_ for the comfort
of repulsive people.
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