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# The Legal Subjection of Men/Chapter 10

A SEX NOBLESSE.
From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader, that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights and duties between the sexes, by conceding to woman all rights, and imposing on man all duties.
It would not be difficult to show, were it worth while, that even the disabilities of women in past times have been grossly exaggerated by apostles of the feminist cultus who have, of course, taken a brief to prove the wickedness of "horrid man" to the poor down-trodden female. Such disabilities as really obtained were for the most part the necessary outcome of women's position as non-combatants in a rude fighting age, and certainly did not originate, as is generally represented, in any deep-laid scheme of male devising. In return for a certain formal subjection, in some respects, they obtained not only the blessing of protection, then an important matter, but valuable privileges in other directions. An impartial student of history must admit that, however badly men have treated their fellow-men, they have always treated women with comparative generosity. The change from feudal to modern capitalist conditions, as regards the position of women, is characterised, however, not only by, at one and the same time, the abolition of every vestige of subordination or disability, but, in addition to that, by the extension of the old compensating privileges, which were the counterpart of the former, and by the further heaping up on the top of these of new privileges, the result having finally saddled us with the institution of that sex-noblesse the ​leading features of which we have sketched out in the foregoing pages.
# The Legal Subjection of Men/Chapter 11

SOCIALISTS AND FEMINISTS.
Certain Socialist writers are fond of describing the Social-Democratic State of the future as implying the "emancipation of the proletarian and the woman." As regards the latter point, however, if emancipation is taken to include domination, we have not to wait so long. The highest development of modern capitalism, as exemplified in the English-speaking countries, has placed man to all intents and purposes, legally under the heel of woman. So far as the relations of the sexes are concerned, it would be the task of Socialism, to emancipate man from this position, if sex-equality be the goal aimed at. The first step on the road towards such equality would necessarily consist in the abolition of modern female privilege.
THE SUFFRAGE.
It is absurd for feminist advocates to trot out their threadbare grievance of the want of the suffrage as a serious disability in the face of all the privileges we have been discussing. It may be right, or it may be wrong, for women to have the suffrage. Respecting this we say nothing here. But, whether right or wrong, we deny that the lack of it, by an otherwise privileged class, constitutes a grievance. Electoral disqualifications are often attendant on special privilege. The Royal Family of this realm, with all their branches, are debarred from the exercise of both the passive and the active franchise. And yet no one pleads that, say, the Prince of Wales, is, in consequence, a cruelly oppressed personage. Similarly the clergy of the Established Church are debarred at least from the passive franchise (i.e., they may not sit in Parliament), and yet we have never heard it contended that on this account they are a sorely hard-done-by section of the community. Where women have parliament, law courts, police magistrates, ​judges as their obsequious humble servants, what more could they expect to obtain, even if they had the suffrage?
# The Legal Subjection of Men/Chapter 12

"THE OPPRESSED WOMAN."
As regards the occasional cases of the ill-treatment of women by men, especially wife assaults and such like, these may be traced largely to the infamous state of the law we have described. Where the law practically refuses justice to one section of the community against another, it is only "human nature" (if we may employ that much-abused phrase) that occasionally members of the section to which justice is refused should be found to take the matter into their own hands, and attempt to redress the balance, by acts, amounting sometimes to brutality. It were surely more reasonable, rather than to expend indignation and ferocity on the individual offender, to seek out and remedy the underlying cause of the offence. Give men reasonable justice as against women, cease to trample underfoot every principle of equity and fair play at the behest of feminist shrieks, and the excuse, or at least, palliation which now undoubtedly exists for any sporadic brutality on the part of men, and especially husbands, of which women may be the victims, would be done away with. Whilst the law remains as it is women deserve scant pity if they do on rare occasions get the worst of it in their dealings with men.
In the foregoing pages we have set forth the respective legal position of the sexes as it now stands. Our aim in doing so has been, by spreading knowledge of the facts of the case, to prevent uninformed though otherwise fair-minded persons from falling a prey to the maudlin rant of demagogic charlatans (male and female), ignorant of law and as destitute of the capacity of independent judgment on any subject as they are of any impartial sense of justice, who so frequently deliver themselves in press and on platform on the subject of the "wrongs of woman."
# The Lessons of October

written in 1924 as a preface to a volume of Trotsky’s writings from 1917. It was published in English in the Communist International’s news magazine Imprecorr in February of 1925. This translation was made by Joseph Vanzler, pseudonym John. G. Wright, and first published by Pioneer Publishers in 1937.

### Chapter 1

* We Must Study the October Revolution

### Chapter 2

* The Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry —- in February and October

### Chapter 3

* The Struggle Against War and Defensism

### Chapter 4

* The April Conference

### Chapter 5

* The July Days; the Kornilov Episode; the Democatic Conference and the Pre-Parliament

### Chapter 6

* On the Eve of the October Revolution; the Aftermath

### Chapter 7

* The October Insurrection and Soviet ‘Legality’

### Chapter 8

* Again, on the Soviets and the Party in a Proletarian Revolution

### A Brief Comment on This Book

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# The Lost Chord

Seated one day at the organ,  I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly  Over the noisy keys;
I know not what I was playing,  Or what I was dreaming then, But I struck one chord of music,  Like the sound of a great Amen,  Like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight,  Like the close of an Angel's Psalm, And it lay on my fevered spirit,  With a touch of infinite calm,
It quieted pain and sorrow,  Like love overcoming strife It seemed the harmonious echo  From our discordant life,
It link'd all perplexed meanings,  Into one perfect peace, And trembled away into silence,  As if it were loth to cease;
I have sought, but I seek it vainly,  That one lost chord divine, Which came from the soul of the organ,  And enter'd into mine,
It may be that Death's bright Angel,  Will speak in that chord again; It may be that only in Heav'n,  I shall hear that grand Amen.
It may be that Death's bright Angel,  Will speak in that chord again; It may be that only in Heav'n,  I shall hear that grand Amen.
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# The Lost Continent

Beyond Thirty is a short science fiction novel first published in All Around Magazine in February 1916, but did not appear in book form in Burroughs' lifetime. The first book edition was issued by Fantasy Press in 1955. The work was retitled The Lost Continent for the first mass-market paperback edition, published by Ace Books in October 1963; all subsequent editions bore the new title until the Bison Books edition of March 2001, which restored the original title.

## Contents

* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
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# The Lost Cherokees

The Lost Cherokees: a scrap of Indian lore is a "filler" from the Adventure magazine, Jul 3 1921
THE LOST CHEROKEES
by Hugh Pendexter
A MONG the Cherokee legends is one dealing with a portion of the nation which lost itself in the West because of the sale of Cherokee lands to the whites in 1721. The story was held to be a fact by the Cherokee, who insisted that travelers returning from the Far West brought word of a tribe living at the base of the Rocky Mountains that spoke the Cherokee language and lived after the Cherokee fashion. Sequoya, who invented the Cherokee alphabet and lifted his people to a literary plane, when more than seventy years old became absorbed with the legend and at last traveled west, crossed the Mississippi and penetrated into Mexico in search of his lost people. He lost his life in the Mexican Sierras, near San Fernando, the late Summer of 1843. These legends of lost peoples are common among many tribes. The Kiowa version has it that years ago one of the chiefs quarreled over a division of game and took some of his people over the Rocky Mountains, near the British border, where somewhere they may be found, retaining the Kiowa language and customs. The Tonkawa believe a band of their people were cut off from the tribe by a tidal wave on the Texas coast and fled back to Mexico. The Tuscarora have a story of the tribe being separated by the Mississippi, the western band remaining in the plains and becoming the enemy of the eastern band.
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# The Little Shroud

* "The Little Shroud" from the Literary Gazette (28 April 1832)
* "The Little Shroud" in The Original (5 May 1832) (external scan)
* "The Little Shroud" in Lays and Legends of Germany (1834) (transcription project)
* "The Little Shroud" from The Vow of the Peacock and Other Poems (1835)
# The Little Vagabond

* The Little Vagabond (Songs of Experience), poem by William Blake in Songs of Experience
* The little Vagabond (Notebook), 1st draft of The Little Vagabond (Songs of Experience) by William Blake in his Notebook
# The Little Peasant

* related portals: Brothers Grimm.
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English-language translations of Das Bürle include:
* "The Little Peasant", translated by Margaret Raine Hunt, in Grimm's Household Tales, Volume 1 (1884)
* "The Little Farmer", translated by Lucy Crane, illustrated by Walter Crane, in Household stories from the collection of the Bros Grimm (1882)
* "The Little Peasant", translated by Alice Lucas, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1909)
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# The Little Peoples

First published in The Liberator, Vol. 2 No.7 July 1917, republished in Workers' Dreadnought Vol VI No. 24, p.1455.

#### The Little People

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# The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (1901)/Chapter 14

CHAPTER XIV
THE PILGRIM STUDIES MEDICINE
(Anatomia.)
Then my guides, leading me between the physical and the chemical lecture-rooms, along some small streets, place me in another open space, where I beheld a fearful sight. They stretched a man out, and cutting off one of his limbs after the other, they examined all his intestines, and with great pleasure showed one another what they found discovered there. Quoth I: "What cruelty, then, is this, to deal with a man as if he were a beast?" "It must be thus," said the interpreter. "This is their school."
(Botanografia.)
2. But these men had meanwhile abandoned this work, and they now ran in divers directions through gardens, meadows, fields, and hills; whatever things they found growing there they plucked, and they carried together such heaps that many years would not have sufficed for merely sifting and examining them. And each one seized out of them what he thought good, or what came in his ​way, and then ran back to the bodies which had been cut up, and spread the herbs over the limbs, measuring them together according to length, width, breadth. One said that this fitted that, another that it did not; then they wrangled about this with much screaming—nay, even as to the very names of these herbs there was much dispute. Him who knew most names of herbs, and was able to measure and weigh them, they crowned with a garland of such herbs; and they ordered that he should be called doctor of this science.
(Praxis Medendi.)
3. Then I perceive that they bring and carry to these men many who, either inwardly or outwardly, had wounds, and were purulent and rotten. Stepping towards them, they looked at their putrefied limbs, smelt the stench that proceeded from them, handled the filth that leaked out from above and below till it was loathsome to behold. And this they called examination. Then they immediately cooked, stewed, roasted, broiled, cauterised, cooled, burnt, hacked, sawed, pricked, sewed together, bound up, greased, hardened, softened, wrapped up, poured out medicines; and I know not what other things they did not. Meanwhile, the patients none the less perished under their hands, many railing at them, and saying that it was either through their ignorance or their carelessness that they had come to ruin. I saw generally that though their science awarded these good healers ​some gain, it also constrained them (if they wished to fulfil their duties) to much—indeed, very much—hard and, in some cases, also disgusting work, and that it brought them as much disfavour as favour; and this pleased me not.
# The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (1901)/Chapter 15

CHAPTER XV
THE PILGRIM BEHOLDS JURISPRUDENCE
(Finis Juris.)
Then they again lead me to a spacious lecture-room, in which I saw more notable men than elsewhere. All along the walls they had painted masonry blockhouses, fences, ramparts, rails, partition-walls, and partitions; and through these, again, there were gaps and holes, doors and gates, bolts and locks, and together with them divers keys, hinges, and hooks. All these men in the lecture-room pointed to this, and attempted to measure where and how it would be possible to enter or not. And I asked: "What, then, are these folks doing?" The answer was that they were striving to discover how every man in the world could retain possession of his goods, and also transfer peacefully to himself the goods of others while maintaining order and concord. Then I said: "This is a pretty thing;" yet after watching it for some time, it disgusted me.
(Jus Circa quid Versetur.)
2. And this was mainly because they had enclosed within these barriers not the spirit or the ​mind or the body of man, but only his worldly goods, a non-essential matter which seemed not to me worthy of the very hard toil that was, as I saw, bestowed on it.
(Fundamentum Juris.Perplexitas Juris.)
3. Besides, I saw that all this science was founded only on the arbitrament of a few, so that if this man or that thought well to maintain that this thing or that was true, the others judged it accordingly; or (I noted this here) according to the fashion in which a man's brain whirled, he built up or destroyed these fences and gaps. Therefore there were many things here that were verily contrary to each other, and others had to break their heads in a wondrous subtle fashion to settle and arrange these differences; at last I wondered that they should grow so heated and sweat so over petty matters, some of which hardly occurred once in a thousand years, and this with no little arrogance. For the better a man was able to burst through a gap and then again to stop it up, the more was he pleased with himself, and the more did the others praise him. But some (wishing to show their wit also) opposed the others, and loudly declared that thus, and not otherwise, things must be enclosed and gaps filled up; then there were quarrels and disputes; then they stepped apart, and one drew one design, another a different one, while all endeavoured to attract the onlookers. When I had ​sufficiently viewed this fooling, I shook my head. "Let us hurry hence, for already am I afeard," I said. And the interpreter to me, with wrath: "Will nothing then please thee in this world? Even in the most noble things, man of an unstable mind, thou findest somewhat to blame." Impudence answered him: "His mind, meseems, sickens with religiousness. Let us lead him elsewhere; there perhaps will he find attraction."
# The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729)/Preface to Book 3

n the preceding books I have laid down the principles of philosophy; principles, not philosophical, but mathematical; such, to wit, as we may build our reasonings upon in philosophical enquiries. These principles are, the laws and conditions of certain motions, and powers or forces, which chiefly have respect to philosophy. But lest they should nave appeared of themselves dry and barren, I have illustrated them here and there, with some philosophical scholiums, giving an account of such things, as are of more general nature, and which philosophy seems chiefly to be founded on; such as the density and the resistance of bodies, spaces void of all bodies, and the motion of light and sounds. It remains, that from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the the World. Upon this subject, I had indeed compos'd the third book in a popular method, that it might be read by many. But afterwards considering that such had not sufficiently ente'd into the principles, could not easily discern the strength of the consequences, nor lay aside the prejudices to which they had been many years accustomed; therefore to prevent the disputes which might be rais'd upon such accounts, I chose to to reduce the substance or that book into the form of propositions (in the mathematical way) which mould be read by those only, who had first made themselves masters of the principles eltablish'd in the preceding books. Not that I would advise any one to the previous study of every proposition of those books. For they abound with such as might cost too much time, even to readers of good mathematical learning. It is enough if one carefully reads the definitions, the laws of motion, and the first three sections of the first book. He may then pass on to this book, of the System of the World, and consult such of the remaining prepositions of the first two books, as the references in this, and his occasions, shall require.
# The Letters of Queen Victoria/Volume 2/Chapter 14/Introductory Note

INTRODUCTORY NOTE
TO CHAPTER XIV
The new year (1845) opened auspiciously, trade improving owing to the great impetus given to it by the many lines of railway then in course of promotion. Over two hundred schemes were prepared at the commencement of the session to seek legislative sanction, and speculation outran all reasonable limits. The Income Tax (which in the ordinary course would have expired) was renewed, and the Anti-Corn Law Leaguers were more persistent than ever in their assaults on Protection, while the attacks on the Ministry from a section of their own party were redoubled. The most remarkable measure of the year was the Government Bill for increasing the grant to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, which was strongly opposed from the Conservative and the Protestant points of view; Mr Gladstone, though he approved of the measure, retired from the Ministry, as he had a few years before written in the opposite sense. Towards the close of the year the condition of Ireland, owing to the failure of the potato crop, became very alarming, and the Ministry greatly embarrassed. Lord John Russell wrote from Edinburgh to the electors of the City of London, announcing his conversion to the Repeal of the Corn Laws, and the Times announced that such a Bill would be brought in by the Ministry. Peel, reluctant to accept the task, resigned office in December, and a Whig Ministry was attempted. Owing to dissensions, the attempt had to be abandoned, and Peel returned to office, without Lord Stanley, but with Mr Gladstone, who however did not seek re-election for the seat vacated by his acceptance of office.
A dispute of great importance arose during the year with the United States, relating to the boundary line between English and American territory west of the Rocky Mountains. Twenty-five years earlier the same question had arisen, and had been settled on the footing of joint occupancy. The increased importance of the Pacific slope made the matter more vital, involving as it did the ownership of Vancouver Island and the mouth of the Columbia River; President Polk unequivocally claimed the whole, and said he would not shrink from upholding America’s interests; the British Government was equally firm, and the matter was not adjusted till 1846.
In India, which during nearly the whole year enjoyed peace, the Sikhs in December assumed the aggressive, and crossed the Sutlej, invading British India. They were signally defeated by Sir Hugh ​Gough at Moodkee and Ferozeshah. In Scinde Sir Charles Napier prosecuted operations against the mountain desert tribes. In New Zealand some disastrous collisions took place between the natives and the settlers; the former on two occasions either de- feating or repulsing the British arms.
In France the most important events were the Bill for fortifying Paris, the campaign waged against Abd-el-Kader in Algeria, and a horrible act of cruelty perpetrated there. In Spain Don Carlos abdicated his claims to the throne in favour of his son; the Queen’s engagement to Count Trapani wasrumoured. In other parts of Europe little that was eventful occurred.