Woman : $b a vindicationLudovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Philosophy
Woman : $b a vindication
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Sex; Women
[239] Anyone who attempts to keep a record of his wife’s, mother’s or
sister’s so-called “intuitive” statements, will soon realize how few of
them reveal an accurate power of immediately perceiving truth.
[240] See several passages in his _Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion_.
[241] The fact that certain organisms in the animal kingdom use senses
which, as far as we can tell, have neither sight, taste, smell,
hearing, nor touch, for their basis, is shown by W. S. Coleman in his
_British Butterflies_. The manner in which the males of the Kentish
Glory Moth, for instance, are attracted to the female, when she is
sometimes more than a mile away from them, is utterly unknown, and
Coleman is compelled to refer it to a sort of clairvoyance. (See pp.
28-29.)
[242] It is largely animated by commercial and industrial rivalry, and
this sort of opposition to Feminism is too contemptible to inspire much
enthusiasm.
INDEX
ACTORS, the, in modern society, 214
ADULTERY, committed by the artist when he marries, 89;
in case of positive woman due to long absence of husband, 189;
caused by vanity, 189 _n._, 219;
during war-time misunderstood by fools, 190, 191;
of the woman owing to her husband’s impotence, 194;
in positive woman due to childlessness, 202
AFFECTATION, a sign of misery in spinsters, 240
ALCOHOL, a sublimator of sex, 248
ALFRED THE GREAT, the masculinity of his mother, 158
ANÆMIA, pernicious effects of, in the positive girl, 116, 117
ANGLO-SAXONS, their lack of insight, 361-3
ARISTOTLE, his doctrine of catharsis, 247
ART, only a weapon in the hands of positive women, 65, 66;
all forms of, man’s invention, 325;
why women turn to, 349
ARTIST, the, often ruined by his success with women, 85;
commits adultery when he marries, 89
ATHLETICS, pernicious effect of, on the positive girl, 113-5
BIRTHS, table of legitimate and illegitimate, 128 _n._
BODY, the, thrilled by sexual union and also by order, 58-60;
the joys of the healthy, never pall, 87;
care of the, in positive girls essential, 117;
the, ruined by Puritanism in both rich and poor, 118;
the joys of the, most important in life, 149
BYRON, unhappy married life of, 143;
the masculinity of his mother, 158;
on cant, 250 _n._;
attitude of women towards his Don Juan, 279 _n._;
his unfortunate relationship to his mother, 316;
on women and false sentiment, 319 _n._
CALVIN, hostile to life, 11;
altogether negative, 13 _n._
CANT, _see_ Introduction.
The inevitable ingredient in every movement in England, 250;
Byron on, 250 _n._
CARLYLE, unhappy married life of, 143
CATHOLIC CHURCH, honest and practical regarding superfluous women, 32;
its wise organization of spinsters, 274, 275.
CELIBACY, in the Catholic Church enforced by poverty, 329 _n._
CHANGE, a necessary tonic in life, 140
CHARLES I ruled by social instinct, 45
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