The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-21

q-euce In the following extract the editor proposes
division OF spos between the unfortunate victims OF
marriage when they throw up their hands, that they may
bsve good pile to commence Life anew when they have
Tree love he fully actuazed we repeat that
woman must become self sustaining This will be effected
through industrial co operation and there To be
nothing very difficult about this where the parties
really want TO secure Independence Cor themselves aud
may form business firm industrial group, making no
Obstruction ON account Of sex far dividends
eernea husbands" may voluntarily restore to their
"wives' the individuality which marriage deprived them
or and make division Of their property giving the wife
an equal share and permitting her to operate with the
husband or an other, she may fit Womans rights
means nothing unless the woman permitted the right TO
cooperate With good business who is not her "hus
band" if she wishes rather than with poor business
man who is her husband" And if she may thus
operate with another she may change her business part
ners she choose and go where her business calls with
out the let Of her husband and womans rights cuts up
marriage by the annhates the isolated house
hold What is here specified possible for woman's pc
cuniary independence at this moment taking place 10
some extent, and will hereafter more and more.
This is only the beginning. Free love is re-
generating gen principle i has power to renew the
LIE and make glad the heart as no other has.
The orthodox talk Of being renewed in spirit.
And what the evidences Of it, Long faces and long
prayers; and they before, giving the sanction OF
their lives TO selshness and dsco,d Aectonal freedom
will mould tho conditions and the harmony without
will correspond the harpony within; and the dream OF
brotherly love- will air be actuaized under the aus
pices Of this great freedom The crisis will bring pain
admit but such the fate of every step in progress and
Just beginning TO realize the rcgeneraing Of this
deareet of all freedoms; and few yet if any,
sure the sphere Of its redeeIning virtue"
Strange as it may seem-but the idea of the family as
the nucleus of society error aRd all the poetry that
has ever been written Of which is the theme to go
for naugh Family ties and associations selfish, and
therefore false Eyerybodys babies are Just as dear to
US naturally What old the world is,
to be sure II anybody is uncanvuced let him read the
'And this is the trouble with the opposers of freedom
They start from wrong premises: they assume the es.
To he Gxld
and then Is IN affair to prove freedom alsehood
If philosophy retain the social system which based
upon the family then does become an attorney for the
family ITSELF set forever in its defence And since the
family necessarily allied 20 social despotisn will this
philosophy he found waving its pulpes IL the popular
social freedom. The DUAL love relation has wrought
GU. its condiions and very true that while these
obtain we cannot undo the cesposm Of duality and give
freedom sexual love without robbng ether loves Of
their rights The wrong here is in tue despoc conditions
and the fact that they preclude freedo in department
Of the afectona sphere ought TO be some evidence TO phi
osophca minds that there something radically discor
daut in the lions themselves The desposm of du
atty with the family and its isolated home. belong to
lower plane OF humanity: upon higher plane, the de-
mand j. imperative for freedom Of all the loves in the
harmony of integral life, This freedom only obtain
under the conditions of freedom, and science and expert
establish these Letsocety bo dsinegraed and
resolved into its individual elements; LET woman gradu
position Of steal independence, that she may
be morally and socially let her regard herself the
pivot Of all she loves and hold her room, and espe
her observe strict fealty herself ard TO lord
anti tree love womans rights people most inconsis
tently urge; let each individual male female
the conditions of self sovereignty through the avenues of
broherly aud sserly GRAFTON, with the oppor,un
tics Of variety and change let the home represent the
fraerna principle of nature then will free love-
be consistent with the rights Of every love and OF all
parties"
love, though IT is We. known fact that many of its lead
inc lights have been great cklers for the doctrine of
spiritual anites One OF the free love contributors to
the Social Reoioui takes the subject and indicates
TO sprtuass where they properly belong in the matter
say Of spirtualism not sprtuass Many recognize the
facts OF spritualism who know little o. It's philosophy
eu, will any intelligent sprtualst deny that the concur
testimony OF the spheres proves that their inhabitants
controlled in their love relations not by arbitrary out
sce authority, but by the law of attraction, affinity or
free love- + conceded fact that the angels DO
have 10 I've hauled before magistrate to ega2e their
marriages How supremely ridiculous the idea that the
men aud women Paradise live together the cat and
cog principle because would be respectable sepa
rate They not generous there TO sacrifice their
individual happiness for the good of the community They
senseless there 10 stay together and scratch
and pull hair from OF duty TO their children
other members Of the community, when these other
audabe motive. The fact that they break
up false relations there. and form Ones
is well established and s Just "a much part Of the
spiritual harmonia philosophy the doctrines of end
less progression. The spiritual philosophy en-
braces and endorses free love- but not by any
the father Of Spruasm is Of comparatively recent
date free love Is % old the etcrnities Sprtuasm
depends for its proof upon the testimony Of but the
whole Of God living proof Of the principle Of
free love The gram Of sand the glitterinz dew
drop the blade OF grass the tiny flower the nuitering
leaf the flying insect the crawling reptile the warbng
bird every animal that the forest; every wheeling
planet every entity, from the atom which helps to form
the nfnssinal animalcue to rolling and systems,
Is witness for the DIVINITY OF freedom living verca
Of the truth that God Is love From system
affinity Is the only rule Of action The relation which each
ao oesrs 70 every otner a'om regustea oy me prin
cple OF attraction, or the love which each bears
10 the other. They come together be-
they subscrve their own happiness thereby;
oTe attract. them they Separate asan Se
with other atoms, never dreaming breach Of morality
controlled only by the inner law. Their marriages are
all for love; not mercenary match among them. He
wins who has the strongest power Of attraction. The
rights Of property secuted at and Jealousy unknown
They net only marry without consulting the priest pub
lie opinion, but they nnmarry with equal facility There
not single monogomst from sense OF duty through
out al Cod universe. There are "unons for lfe but
love the bond and happiness the object in all cases.
action All content to live out their natures
cOrdDg to their instincts, never thinking Of thing
wrong in the arrangement. Beast, bird. fish, insect,
atoms and systems obey Joyfuly unquestoningy, the
of their being II u left for man-wise ques-
wisdom OF his Maker He alone disrts the dvi-
nifty Of HE nature Under the influence OF a damniug
theology or conventional education, he pronounces him.
self totally seprayed, and the glorious human body be-
comes an uncean thing TO be curbed crushed and cruc
fed The best gifts OF God become a 10 hm--the
holes, impulses 81 the soul take the hue OF evil 70 be
subdued eradoaied. shame the ngra,es to thus
grumbe at Gods bcncacece-to thus disparage aud de-
preciste their highest and purest facultcsi We
must think order and love to order and of
liberals who think themselves emancp aed from eo
logical supers;ons, get very much tainted with the
old notion Of depravty. "Sprtual love pure but love
which dcscends into the body - deprayed, they say.
Why. unless the body Is depraved, idea which they
pretend to discard, but nevertheless retain and build
their preudces upon ~ Now, believe that the creative
energy has made the human body worthy OF the spir,
which nhabts H. II Is Just pure. just hoy aud II
Just much entitled TO is right Any other view
Election upon Deity. We then as free lovers
one with Cod and harmony with nature; and you self
righteous Pharsecs who by the other SIDE
Gar from the kingdom Of heaven as your ancient prototypes
were YOU are outlaws--not You al with
God and endeavorng To thwart his will n conformity
the laws OF God be test OF righteousness then We
miserable sinners-indes, without faith either God
man 60 cbastise your self consequence. Repent ye,
for the kingdom Of heaven is at hand"
But the Free Lovers are not without their poets
and the pages of the Social Rerottnia contain several
Efforts Of greater less ability In which free love in
carpated IN metre subjoin two extracts The hrst IS
by anonymous writer The seconi Ia the production Of
Mrs cordela Barry, who, with her husband were The