The law of honesty is the first precept written out on the Iron Mask. Honesty is a rule of convenience whose purpose is to keep back the crowd from the excellent game of the select few.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
High finance - a game of sport best played like cricket, with limited numbers.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
The fat man is just as likely to endow the lean scolders as is the Almighty - none at all. He is satisfied in the knowledge that they can achieve their own endowment as he and his achieved theirs, by taking from yielding hands.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
Hence, the popularity of the “Cause” which provides the Ideal to which the “desired self-sacrifice can be offered.” The greater the sacrifice the Idol can accept the greater is it as a “Cause,” whether it be liberty, equality, fraternity, honesty or what not. If ten thousand starving men, with their tens of thousands of dependents, starve in the Cause of Honesty, how great is Honesty. If a woman throws away her life for freedom, how great is freedom. And no mistake.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
This is the epoch of the gadding mind. The mind “not at home” but given to something else, occupied with alien “causes” is of the normal order, and as such must be held accountable for that condemning of the lonely occupant of the home - the Self - which is the characteristic of the common mind.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
1It is from a full recognition of the fact that feminist doctrine is a hard one for women, that the path of the Freewoman will be beset with difficulties, with temptations both from within and without, that we are led to the further recognition of the futility of preaching it to the women who are essentially ordinary women, who do not already bear in themselves the stamp of the individual.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, November 23rd 1911
Imagine the circumstances! The man would be compelled by law to pay a portion of his salary to a person whom he is prevented by law from dismissing, and who is prevented by law from securing release. The paid person may be satisfactory or not. If unsatisfactory, what redress is there for the employer? No redress! but a possible remedy in corporal punishment, such as is administered to soldiers in barracks in similar circumstances. And the employee against a tyrannical employer? No power to refuse to sell her labor! power only to form a trade union of paid wives! The entire theory is ludicrous in its absurdity. No! Personal relationships between equals must be entered into on terms of equality.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, November 23rd 1911
What are the responsibilities of the father? Well, that is his business. Perhaps the State will have something to say to him, but the Freewoman’s concern is to see to it that she shall be in a position to bear children if she wants them without soliciting maintenance from any man, whoever he may be; and this she can only do if she is earning money for herself, or is provided for out of some common fund for a limited time.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, November 23rd 1911
The cult of the Suffragist takes its stand upon the weakness and dejectedness of the conditions of women. The cult of the Suffragist would say, “Are women not weak? Are women not crushed down? Are women not in need of protection? Therefore, give them the means wherewith they may be protected.” Those of the cult of the Freewoman, however, while granting this in part, would go on to say, “In spite of our position, we feel within us the stirrings of new powers and growing strength. If we can secure scope, opportunity, and responsibility, we feel we can make realizable to the world a new revelation of spiritual consciousness. We feel we can produce new evidence of creative force, which, when allowed its course, will encompass developments sufficiently great to constitute a higher development in the evolution of the human race and of human achievement.”
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, November 23rd 1911
How women have fallen into this position is a moot point. It is yet to be decided whether they ever did fall - where man and women have not been, from their creation, master and servant. If otherwise, and if woman did “fall,” the reason why is yet to be assigned. It is quite beside the point to say women were “crushed” down. If they were not “down” in themselves - i.e., weaker in mind - no equal force could have crushed them “down.”
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, November 23rd 1911
