Woman : $b a vindicationLudovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Philosophy
Woman : $b a vindication
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Sex; Women
MAN, cannot mould woman, 27;
but can make her miserable and ill, 29;
modern, less positive than woman, 23;
a means unconsciously exploited by woman, 42;
not generally ruled by reproductive instinct, 46;
an amputation from Life, 55;
reproductive instinct not universally predominant in, 55;
social instinct most important in his life, 56;
woman a temptation to the positive, 67, 69;
practically asexual after performing the sexual act, 68;
guided by social instinct to support woman and child, 68;
the modern public school athlete a torture machine for
women, 82, 83;
guided by values in his choice of a mate, 98, 99;
the positive, ruined by Puritanism, 152, 153;
the positive, misled by Puritan values, 100, 102;
duty of the positive, to give woman a clean conscience in regard
to sex, 107;
degeneration of, 161 (_see also_ Introduction);
the rarity of the male, in England, 161, 162;
school of initiation into sex for, 172;
effect of childlessness upon the positive, 205, 206;
games, hobbies, and religion the substitutes for sexual variety for
the positive, 207;
the negative, guided by vanity, 222;
the proud, disliked to-day, 224 _n._, 225;
the modern, very much below even a modest idea of what man should
be, 230;
ruined and devitalized by commercialism, 265 (_see also_
Introduction);
the creative intelligence even in woman’s sphere, 299;
the Promethean type of, and the misery he creates, 333, 334;
geniuses and unmitigated fools produced by the extreme variability
of, 350, 351;
his psychic powers, 360;
his great variability, 367;
most in need of transformation, 368
MANLINESS, absurd modern conception of, 82
MANU, Laws of, _see_ HINDUS
MARITAL fidelity, due to ill-health, 151
MARK ANTHONY, ruled by reproductive instinct, 45, 55
MARRIAGE, erroneous to regard it is a sacrifice for women, 79;
often a disappointment to the positive girl, 90;
a social contrivance, 125;
not a natural state, 126;
hedonistic view of, reprehensible, 131, 132, 133, 134, 137;
its utility, 133;
in a chaotic condition in Europe owing to Christianity, 139;
unhappy in most cases of men of genius, 143;
modern, now on the rocks, 168;
should be utilitarian, 169;
points to be considered in, 169;
right teaching regarding, 170;
reform of, essential, 176;
the fifth to the tenth the most critical years for, 210, 211;
entered upon from vanity, 218;
in England often peaceful owing to negativism, 227;
should be the only calling for women, 276
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