The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-09
FREE LOVE DEFINED.
Young New York at the Feet Of Lovely and
Independent Woman-Philosophy Science
and Poetry-Roseth and Swinburne
the Great Fres Love Poets
Lecture by Mrs Mckinley.

So free love has its science its philosophy and its
poetry. II also has its great poets This is some-
thing to know. doctrine az once scientific
philosophical; and poetic must be worthy OF
attention. And when the expounder possesses
aside from her superior personal appearance the
capabllity, by no means necessary to q pretty
woman, OF constructing an audience" what more
can be demanded9 The above prospectus OF
Frances Rose McKinley's lecture attracted to
Irving Hall very remarkable audience. large
number of young men were suddenly possessed
with desire to know the exact definition Of free
love, as given by o modern thinker. very few
women seemed to have the same desire. No better
opportunity could have been chosen by these
seekers after wisdom. Mrs. Mckinley was
definite and special. She did not conteny
herself with gttering generaities but
dlssected her subject with the bravery becoming
your true free.lover. At eight o'clock the lecturer
with superior personal appearances" appeared
upon the platform. She was dressed neatly in q
pale silk walking costume with lace at the neck and
wrists She wore diamonds, and her HAIR touched her
eyebrows. One would suppose that an intellectual
free-over would prefer an inch or two OF forehead
but the Greek prevailed in the present instance.
Mrs. Mckinley began to speak and her youthful au-
dience began to move their chairs So much
trouble about position was never known before.
There was also much running TO and fro in thatparT
bore all the ANNOYANCE with the true missionary
grit When one goes
one expects to be eaten up. was evidently her
motto. Alter gentle initiation the boys were in-
formed aas m S e tpe of
The free lover Is the true lover. and having l0veG
one truly learns 70 love all mankind There are three
kinds OF loves the last and most perfect Is free l0ve
Woman. learning TO use her intellect. 10 beginning
to emerge from the first phase OF love Love IN inc
largest sense OF the word ID the 1ncltemene
n the az universe sesn. Freedom 70 love IS freedom
obedience to its own laws can 1t be regulated. The
modern movement of'free love Is an outward ex-,
E Fs'S-'I material mind cannot undelssan9
the position OF the philosophical Tree lover. From
to the denition Of the term love. Free love to
the animal man means the lndiscrlmlnate ilcenuousJ
ness in which most men indulge who have the
power and money. lL0ng appause.) The conscl-
en.iOus believer IN
is Of the same OPINION TO the free In thought the
two words convey the idea OF freedom in the nobess
attributes Of the soul she believed IN ner freedom
own way: MpDlaasss aud Kisses. There mere
they conceive to be free love. The speaker quoted
81. Paul at this junclure, 9 saint, who probably
be better than lives. Tne word
it must first produce true man. lGroans ana ap-
pIause) The true lover cannot exist as society Is
now organized. Inc average mdu OF tHe ulEctccutB
century is but lighting and craving animal.
daughter and Groans.l There mas been no . true
breed OF men. Only here and there Is specimen
that suggests the possibility Of the race. Toe
ONEIDA COMMUNISM,
q much abused and little understood society, are
illustrating the medium between the Shaker and
Mormon. QLanghtcr.) Marriage, II but tie OF the
body, cannot fetIer the SOUL The freedom that the
speaker desires she believed 10 be universally
practlsed secret however people make pre-
fences in public. Freedom to mate is the demand
OF the free-lOver Love confined to one Will be
unknown when love is perfectly developed. Great
excitement.) This would be called to-day promis.
cuOusness or anarchy. In a true society 1t would
be the narmonv OF the spheres. In the bygone his
her, but in the strict analysis or love II Is
the woman who makes love. (Groans.) Thought
ful men ana women do not fall in love- They DO not
mistake attraction for Intellectual love. Men are
ALREADY FREE LOVERS
In the lowest sense (groans, Kisses ana APP
Is truly developed she will no longer
be toy, and she viii learn that first right Is TO
dispose OF her person as she wishes. How free the
Greeks were III their love Is expressed In
their religion. Venus was adOred in all mytnolO
gies. The time Will come when the, State
and mothers must learn to love other peoples
children as well as their own. This sentiment was
considered TO be remarkably funny, and was greeted
with the peculiar enthusiasm OF the audience. As
the speaker developed her millennium IDEAS varl
GUS women, VINO mad heard quite enough evidently
went quietly out and by the end OF the lecture TIM
boys had the hall mostly so themselves.
Mrs. Mckinley deserves great credit for tn
bravery with which she managed ner menagerle
and the great untamed ought to have received
vote OF thanks for cOnfnlng themselves to grOWl
under such eXasperating circumstances.