The Little Review, March 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 1) — John Shaqi
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Alexander The Great and Rosa Bonheur and Sappho were intermediates: how
is this science of the future to meet these issues? They move into the
realm of the world’s sublime tragedies when one reads the manifesto of a
community of such people in Germany:—“The rays of sunshine in the night
of our existence are so rare that we are responsive and deeply grateful
for the least movement, for every single voice that speaks in our favor
in the forum of mankind.” Mrs. Ellis may have thought her audience
entirely too unsophisticated, too untutored in these matters, to admit
of specific treatment. But that is all the greater reason to talk
plainly. When you reflect how difficult it is for the mass to become
educated about sex it becomes rather appalling. It is worth your life to
get Havelock Ellis’s six volumes from a bookstore or a library. You can
only do it with a doctor’s certificate or something of that sort. Even
if you ask for Weininger you are taken behind locked doors, forced to
swear that you want it out of no “morbid curiosity,” that you will keep
it only a week, and above all that you won’t let anyone else read it. Of
course, it is practically impossible to do work of this sort under the
auspices of women’s medical leagues or similar organizations. But Mrs.
Ellis had dared the impossible. I can’t help comparing her with another
woman whose lecture on such a subject would be big, brave, beautiful....
I am criticised for having too much about this other woman in THE LITTLE
REVIEW; so “not to mention any names,” as the story goes, I will merely
say that Emma Goldman could never fail in this way.
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