The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-07
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 'sTh1nk what we are. 1t is but a yesterday in the endIessness of time that life was dreaming thing, dream ing so deeply that 1t forgot itself as it dreamed, its lives, it's individual in- stincts, it's moments were born and wondered and played and hungered and grew weary and died. Incalcula- b1e successions of visions, visions of sun1it jungle, river wilderness, wild forests, eager desire, beating hearts, soaring wings and creeping terror damed hotly, and then were as though they had never been. Life was an un- easiness across which lights played and vanished. And then we came, man came, and opened eyes that were question and hands that were a de- mand and began a mind and memory that dies not when men die, but lives and increases forever, an oyermind, dominating will, question and an as- pfration that reaches to the stars. Hunger and fear and this that you make so much of, this sex, are but the elementaIs Of life out of which we have arisen All these elementals, grant you, have to be provided for, dealt with, satisded, but all these things have to be left behind. 7
 ..But love.' said Kahn.
 Karenin shook his head ssYou can not stay at the roots and climb the tree,'' he said
 sNo,.' he said after pause, ttthis love story is just part of growing up, and we grow out of it. So far litera-, ture And art and sentiment and all our emotional forms have been almost all together ado1escent: plays and stories
 
 ed on that marvellous discovery of the love interest, but life lengthens out now. and the mind of adult humanity detaches itself Poets, who used to die at thirty, live now to eightyhve. You, too, Kahni There are endless years yet for you-and all full of learning. We carry an excessive burthen of sex tradition at present, and we have to free ourselves from it We do free ourselves from it. We have learnt in q thousand different ways to hold back death, and this sex, which in the old barbaric days was just sufficient to bal ance our dying, is now like hammer that has lost it's anvil-it pIunges through human life. You poets, you young people, want to turn it to de- light Turn it to delight. That may be one way out. In a little while, if you have any brains worth thinking about, you will be satisfied, and then you will come up here to the greater taings. The old religions and their new offsets want still. II see. to sup press all these things. Let them sup press, if they can suppress, in their own people Either road viii bring you here at last to the eternal search for knowledge and the great adventure of power
 s.But incidentally said Rachel Bor- ken. incidentally you have half of hu- manity, you have womankind, very much specialized forfor this love and reproduction that is so much less need- ed than 1t was"
 .sBoth sexes are specialized for love and reproduetion,'' said Karenin-
 ssAnd surely said Kahn. when you speak of love as a phase isn't it a nee essary phase9 Without that stir, with out that impulse to go out from our selves, to be reckless of ourselves and wonderful, would our lives be anything more than the contentm. 1t of the stall cd oxT'
 esThe key that opens the door" " said Karenin, lis not the goal of the jour ney.
 sBut wonenr' cried Rachel Here re are! What is our future as wom- en9 Is 1t only that we have unlocked the doors of the imagination for you men? Let us speak of this question now. It is thing constantly in my thoughts Karenin. What do you think Of us? You who must have thought so much of these perplexitdes.
 Karenin seemed to weigh his words He spoke very deliberately T do not care a rap about your future-as won- en. do not care rap about the fu- ture Of men-as males. want to de stroy these peculiar futures. I care for your future as intelhgences, as parts of and contributions to the uni versaI mind of the race. Humanity is not only naturally overspecia1ized in these matters, but all it's insttu- lions, its customs, everything, exag- gerate, intensity this difference. | want to unspecialize women. No new Idea. Plato wanted exactly that l do not want to go on as we go now, emphasizing this natural difference. I do not deny it, but want to reduce it and overcome it.
 And we remain women,'' said Ra- chel Borken.
 Need you remain thinking of your selves as women 2''
 IS IoFceQ upon uss sa1u Ed4In Haydon-
 q do not think woman becomes less of a woman. because she dresses and works like man. said Edwards. ssYou women here-I mean you scien- tif1c women-wear white clothing like the men, twist up your hair in the sim plest fashion, go about your work as though there was only one sex in the world. You are just as much women even if you are not so feminine as the fine ladies down below there in the plains, who dress for excitement and display, whose only thoughts are o1