New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-26

love Will pe esteemed Soou, Inc iaSt"b
health or energy or happiness. But as in
health or happiness. the enduring character OF
passionate love will not be considered solely
OF itself--wll not be its justification, as it
were for existing
And what is society TO think of this new
dissolubility of the marriage bond'
The surcease OF love will be accounted a
disaster, tragedy, not an offence; mis-
fortune society should regret pity, not con-
denim or revile"
That sex relations should be quite as little
a community concern as is friendship, for ex-
ample, is also expounded in Social Freedom"
Relations between personalities, whether
sex enters into them or not, run the risk,
given publicity of becoming impersonal and
monopolistic. Personal relations cannot be
standardized. Each relationship will
have to be considered in itself.
In early culture friendship is itself an at
fair of covenant and ceremonial, a public re-
lationship. With us il is not community
concern. Time will be, one ventures TO pre-
dict, when sex relationship likewise will come
into its rights to privacy, to freedom from
direct community control.
Facing toward personality, sex becomes
factor in the enrichment of personality and Of
contacts between personalities. 1t is a fac
tor. not an obsession. 1t counts only where
it really exists but there it is free to really
count. No longer a source OF distress or an
noyance, it is not kept separate from life nor
repressed into the obscene Il is free TO ex-
press itself, developing its own tests, stand
ards, ideals
NEW STANDARDS IN VIEW.
According to these ideals, relations between
men and women will be primarily personal re-
latons, seoondary sexual. The standards set
them will be standards of frankness, sincerity,
single-heartedness and, above ALL of reciproci-
ty That these standards can be lived up to
best in a private, anti-monopolistic relationship
will be realized or realized enough to free sex
relations from compulsory advertisement or
from the necessity of furtveness.
Then at last, assured of privacy and of free
dom, passionate love will forget its shameful
centuries of degradation TO spread its wings
into those spaces whereof its poets sing"
With half the world embroled in war Mrs.
Parsons has the courage to outline an ideal
world state, in which conflict shall be unknown.
This state, she urges, will be brought about
through a destruction of the false valuation
put upon place fellowship" and consequently
a destruction OF those highly limiting ins,itu-
tions-nationalism and Imperialism.
"Nationalism or imperialism has been an out
come of the early type of the will to power.
The fellowship to come will satisfy itself
through controlling not people, but conditions.
Freedom from this subordination" (Which ex-
lists to-day and has resulted in war chaos)
is going 10 be extremely slow and indirect
process, a matter of infinite adjustments, OF
endless experiment, of that conversion of mems
minds to which no time measures can be ap-
Piled"
And will this new social or international
freedom represent the ultimate desire OF tho
system under discusson2
A WORLDWIDE ELECTORATE.
at will be-" she answers decidedly, "the
final fruit, in any social future we at all
foresee, OF the habit OF meeting facts which
modern culture initiated and of the substtu-
ton It encourages of personality desires for
status desires.
I'm that consummation one foresees every
person in the world member of many polt-
hood to a worldwide electorate. One fore
sees the world electorate and each OF its sub
divisions determined by the interests natural
to each One soresees the globe covered by
local self-governing groups varying from a
mere handful of persons. from single persons.
in fact to groups of many thousands. The
natural resources OF these groups are CON-
munal. From one to the other the degree of
economic cooperation will vary greatly-from
completely individuastic enterprise to COM
pletely collcctivistic. The tendency in all Of
them will be away from control of persons to
control of nature and economy; but here,
too, the dfferentiations will be very great.
Each group will be connected with other
groups or with the whole world through a
world system OF free communication and trans
portation, through free trade, through the CON-
mon possession OF natural facilities through a
common sanitary system, through its claims
upon scientists and upon all kinds OF practical
experts. All intergroup functions will be ad-
minis.ered by representatives from all the
groups concerned or rather for widespreading
functions there will be larger consultations.
For worldwide functions there will be a
worldwide group.
This is world federation. if you like, but
world federation based not on any fictitious
principle OF mystical unity but on actual con-
ditons and the need OF efficient functioning.
1t will come about through experience, not
through mysticism. Mystical ideas OF hui