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Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Max Baginski, John Russell Coryell, John Davidson, Emma Goldman, Mary Hansen, Otto Erich Hartleben · Science Fiction Library

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Mother Earth volume one, number two, April
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  Speaker 1: nineteen six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Larry Wilson, Mother Earth,
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  Speaker 1: volume one, number two, April nineteen six. To the Generation
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  Speaker 1: Knocking at the Door by John Davidson. Break, break it open,
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  Speaker 1: Let the knocker rust. Consider no shalt, not nor no
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  Speaker 1: man's must, but being entered, promptly take the lead. Setting
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  Speaker 1: aside tradition, custom creed, nor watch the balance of the
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  Speaker 1: huckster's beam. Declare your heartiest thought, your proudest dream, Await
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  Speaker 1: no summons, laugh at all, rebuff high hearts. In you
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  Speaker 1: are destiny enough, the mystery and the power enshrined in
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  Speaker 1: you are old as time and as the moment, new
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  Speaker 1: and none. But you can tell what part you play,
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  Speaker 1: nor can you tell until you make essay for this alone,
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  Speaker 1: this always will succeed the miracle and magic of the deed.
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  Speaker 1: End of section one. Section two of Mother Earth volume one,
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  Speaker 1: number two, April nineteen six. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by Larry Wilson, Mother Earth, Volume one, number two, April
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  Speaker 1: nineteen six, Observations and comments by Emma Goldman. Whoever severs
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  Speaker 1: himself from Mother Earth and her flowing sources of life
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  Speaker 1: goes into exile. A vast part of civilization has ceased
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  Speaker 1: to feel the deep relation with our mother. How they
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  Speaker 1: hasten and fall over one another, the many thousands of
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  Speaker 1: the great cities, How they swallow their food, everlastingly, counting
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  Speaker 1: the minutes with cold hard faces. How they dwell packed
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  Speaker 1: together close to one another above and beneath in dark,
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  Speaker 1: gloomy stuffed holes, with dull hearts and insensitive heads from
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  Speaker 1: the lack of space and air. Economic necessity causes such
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  Speaker 1: hateful pressure. Economic necessity, why not economic stupidity? This seems
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  Speaker 1: a more appropriate name for it, were it not for
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  Speaker 1: lack of understanding and knowledge, The necessity of escaping from
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  Speaker 1: the agony of an endless search for profit would make
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  Speaker 1: itself felt more keenly. Must the Earth forever be arranged
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  Speaker 1: like an ocean steamer with large, luxurious rooms and luxurious
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  Speaker 1: food for a select few beneath, in the steerage, where
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  Speaker 1: the great mask can barely breathed from dirt and the
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  Speaker 1: poisonous air. Neither unconquerable external nor internal necessity forces the
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  Speaker 1: human race to such life. That which keeps it in
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  Speaker 1: such condition are ignorance and indifference. Since Trigany wrote his
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  Speaker 1: Fathers and Sons and the New Generation, the appearance of
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  Speaker 1: the revolutionary army in Russia has changed features. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: only the intellectuals in college youths, a small coterie of
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  Speaker 1: idealists who knew no distinction between class and caste, took
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  Speaker 1: part in the tremendous work of reconstruction. The revolutionists of
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  Speaker 1: those days had delicate, white hands, lots of learning, aestheticism,
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  Speaker 1: and a good portion of nervousness. He attempted to go
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  Speaker 1: among the people, but the people understood him, not for
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  Speaker 1: he did not speak the people's tongue. It was a
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  Speaker 1: great effort for most of those brave ones to overcome
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  Speaker 1: their disgust at the dirt and dense ignorance they met
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  Speaker 1: among the peasants, who absolutely lacked comprehension of new ideas. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: there could be no understanding between the intellectuals who wanted
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  Speaker 1: to help and the sufferers who needed help. These two
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  Speaker 1: elements were brought in closer touch through industrialism. The Russian peasant,
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  Speaker 1: robbed of the means to remain on his soil, was
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  Speaker 1: driven into the large industrial centers, and there he learned
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  Speaker 1: to know those brave and heroic men and women who
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  Speaker 1: gave up their comfort and career in their efforts for
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  Speaker 1: the liberation of their people. These ideas that have undergone
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  Speaker 1: such great changes in Russia within the last decade should
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  Speaker 1: serve as good material for study for those who claimed
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  Speaker 1: the Russian Revolution is dead. Nicholas Tchaikovsky, one of Russia's
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  Speaker 1: foremost workers in the revolutionary movement, and one who, through
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  Speaker 1: beauty of character, simplicity of soul, and great strategical ability,
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  Speaker 1: has been the idol of the Russian revolutionary youth for
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  Speaker 1: many years, is here as the delegate of the Russian
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary Socialist Party to raise funds for a new uprising.
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  Speaker 1: He was right when he said at the meeting in
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  Speaker 1: the Grand Central Palace, the Russian Revolution will live until
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  Speaker 1: the decayed and cowardly regime of tyranny in Russia is
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  Speaker 1: rooted out of existence. The French have a new president,
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  Speaker 1: Lubay was succeeded by Fallier. The father of the new
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  Speaker 1: one was a great gormandiser, a Pantagulean dimensions. He died
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  Speaker 1: of overloading his stomach. The son made his career like
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  Speaker 1: a cautious upstart. He is well enough acquainted with himself
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  Speaker 1: to know that he is not a Machiavelli. Therefore he
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  Speaker 1: does not boast of his sagacity, but rather of his integrity.
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  Speaker 1: A politician is irresistible to a crowd when he cries
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  Speaker 1: out to them. My opponents expressed the suspicion that I
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  Speaker 1: am a numskull. I do not care to argue the
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  Speaker 1: point with them, but this I will say, by the
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  Speaker 1: way of explanation, fellow citizens, that I am a thoroughly
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  Speaker 1: honest man to the very roots of my hair. By
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  Speaker 1: this method one can attain the presidency of a republic.
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  Speaker 1: As Secretary of the Interior, Follier caused the arrest of
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  Speaker 1: the socialist poet Clovis Ugus. At another time he declared,
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  Speaker 1: as long as I am in office, I will not
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  Speaker 1: tolerate the red flag on the open street. The French
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  Speaker 1: bourgeois have found in Folliers their fitting man of straw
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  Speaker 1: for seven years. The only genuine democrat of these times
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  Speaker 1: is death. He does not admit of any class distinctions.
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  Speaker 1: He mows down a proletarian and a marshall Field with
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  Speaker 1: the same side. How imperfectly the world is arranged, it
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  Speaker 1: should be possible to shift the bearing of children and
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  Speaker 1: a dying from the rich to the poor for good pay.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, whosoever believe that the law is infallible and
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  Speaker 1: can bring about order in the chaotic social conditions knows
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  Speaker 1: the curative effect of law to the minutest detail. The
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  Speaker 1: question how things might be improved is met with this reply.
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  Speaker 1: All criminals should be caught in a net like fish
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  Speaker 1: and put away for safe keeping, so that society remains
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  Speaker 1: in the care of the righteous. Howelujah, people with a
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  Speaker 1: capacity to judge for themselves think differently. Mister Charlton T. Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: President of the National Prison Association, maintains our country jails
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  Speaker 1: everywhere are the schools and colleges of crime. In the
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  Speaker 1: light of social science, it were better for the world
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  Speaker 1: if every one of them were destroyed than that this
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  Speaker 1: work should be continued. Experience shows that the system of
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  Speaker 1: imprisonment of minor offenders for short terms is but a
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  Speaker 1: gigantic measure for the manufacture of criminals. Freedom, not confinement,
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  Speaker 1: is the natural state of mana and the only condition
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  Speaker 1: under which influences for reformation can have their full efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: Prison life is unnatural at best. Man is a social creature.
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  Speaker 1: Confinement tends to lure his consciousness of dignity and responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: to weaken the motives which govern his relations to his race,
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  Speaker 1: to impair the foundations of character, and unfit him for
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  Speaker 1: independent life. To consign a man to prison is commonly
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  Speaker 1: to enroll him in the criminal class. With all the
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  Speaker 1: solemnity and emphasis of which I am capable, I utter
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  Speaker 1: the profound conviction, after twenty years of constant study of
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  Speaker 1: our prison population, that more than nine tenths of them
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  Speaker 1: ought never to have been confined. Government and authority are
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the conditions in the Western Mighty districts. Is
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  Speaker 1: not the existence of government considered as a necessity on
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  Speaker 1: the grounds that it is here to maintain peace, law
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  Speaker 1: and order. This this is an off repeated song. Let
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  Speaker 1: us see how the government of Colorado has lived up
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  Speaker 1: to its calling. Within the last few years, it has
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  Speaker 1: permitted that the labor protective laws that have passed the
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  Speaker 1: legislature should be broken and trampled upon by the mine owners.
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  Speaker 1: The money powers care little for the eight hour law,
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  Speaker 1: and when the mine workers insisted upon keeping that law,
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  Speaker 1: the authorities of Colorado immediately went to the rescue of
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  Speaker 1: the exploiters. Not only were police and soldiers let loose
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  Speaker 1: upon the Western Federation of Miners, but the government of
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  Speaker 1: Colorado permitted the mine owners to recruit an army to
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  Speaker 1: fight the labor organizations. Hire leans were formed into a
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  Speaker 1: so called Citizens Committee that inaugurated a reign of terror.
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  Speaker 1: These legal law breakers invaded peaceful homes during the day
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  Speaker 1: and night, and those that were in the least suspected
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  Speaker 1: of belonging to or sympathizing with, the Western Federation of
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  Speaker 1: Miners were torn out of bed, arrested, and dragged off
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  Speaker 1: to the ball pen, or transported into the desert without
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  Speaker 1: food or shelter, many miles from other living beings. Some
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  Speaker 1: of these victims were crippled for life and died as
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  Speaker 1: a result thereof. When it became known that the w
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  Speaker 1: f M continued to stand erect regardless of brutal attacks,
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  Speaker 1: it was decided to strike the last violent blow against it.
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  Speaker 1: Orchard the man of honor, confessed, and the law breakers
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  Speaker 1: appealed to the law against Heywood, Moyer and Petabone. This
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  Speaker 1: time the government did not hesitate. The eight hour and
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  Speaker 1: Protective labor law was too insignificant to enforce, but to
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  Speaker 1: bring the officers of the w f M to account, that,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is the duty and the function of the state.
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  Speaker 1: There is not the slightest hope that the authorities, who
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  Speaker 1: for a number of years have permitted the violation of
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  Speaker 1: the law will be put on trial. But the crime
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  Speaker 1: they have perpetrated is a weighty argument in favor of
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  Speaker 1: those who maintained that the state is not an independent
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  Speaker 1: institution but a tool of the possessing class. Many radicals
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  Speaker 1: entertain the queer notion that they cannot arrange their own
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  Speaker 1: lives according to their own ideas, but that they have
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  Speaker 1: to adapt themselves to the conditions they hate, and which
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  Speaker 1: they fight in theory with fire and sword anything rather
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  Speaker 1: than arouse too much public condemnation. The lives they lead
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  Speaker 1: are dependent upon the opinion of the philistines. They are
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  Speaker 1: revolutionists in theory reactionists in practice. The words of Lewis
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  Speaker 1: the fourteenth I am the state have been taken up
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  Speaker 1: as a motto by the American policeman. One of the
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  Speaker 1: New York papers contains the following account. In discharging some
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  Speaker 1: seventy prisoners in the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday morning,
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  Speaker 1: the magistrates said to the police in charge of the cases,
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  Speaker 1: I am amazed that you men should bring these prisoners
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  Speaker 1: before me without a shred of evidence on which they
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  Speaker 1: can be held. Such is the blessing of this republic.
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  Speaker 1: We are not confronted by one czar of the size
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  Speaker 1: of an elephant, but by one hundred thousand czars as
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  Speaker 1: small as mosquitoes, but equally disagreeable and annoying. Friends of
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  Speaker 1: Mother Earth and various Western cities have proposed a lecture
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  Speaker 1: tour in behalf of the magazine. So far I have
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  Speaker 1: heard from Cleveland, Detroit, Saint Louis, and Chicago. Those of
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  Speaker 1: other cities who wish to have me lecture there will
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  Speaker 1: please communicate with me as to the dates at once.
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  Speaker 1: The tour is to begin May twelfth and last for
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  Speaker 1: a month or six weeks. Emma Goldman, Box two, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Station.
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  Speaker 2: In the section two, Section three of Mother Earth Volume one,
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  Speaker 2: number two, April nineteen oh six. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 2: by Alex Clark, Mother Earth, volume one, number two, April
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  Speaker 2: nineteen oh six. Section three The Child and Its Enemies
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  Speaker 2: by Emma Goldman. Is the child to be considered as
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  Speaker 2: an individuality or as an object to be molded according
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  Speaker 2: to the whims and fancies of those about it. This
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  Speaker 2: seems to me to be the most important question to
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  Speaker 2: be answered by parents and educators. And whether the child
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  Speaker 2: is to grow from within, whether all that craves expression
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  Speaker 2: will be permitted to come forth toward the light of day,
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  Speaker 2: or whether it is to be needed like dough through
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  Speaker 2: external forces, depends upon the proper answer to this vital question.
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  Speaker 2: The long being of the best and noblest of our
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  Speaker 2: times makes for the strongest individualities. Every sensitive being abhors
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  Speaker 2: the idea of being treated as a mere machine or
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  Speaker 2: as a mere parrot of conventionality and respectability. The human
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  Speaker 2: being craves recognition of his kind. It must be borne
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  Speaker 2: in mind that it is through the channel of the
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  Speaker 2: child that the development of the mature man must go,
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  Speaker 2: and that the present ideas of the educating or training
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  Speaker 2: of the latter in the school and the family, even
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  Speaker 2: the family of the liberal or radical, are such as
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  Speaker 2: to stifle the natural growth of the child. Every institution
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  Speaker 2: of our day, the family, the state, our moral codes,
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  Speaker 2: sees in every strong, beautiful, uncompromising personality a deadly enemy. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: every effort is being made to cramp human emotion and
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  Speaker 2: originality of thought in the individual into a strait jacket
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  Speaker 2: from its earliest infancy, or to shape every human being
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  Speaker 2: according to one pattern, not into a well rounded individual u,
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  Speaker 2: but into a patient work slave, professional, automaton, tax paying
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  Speaker 2: citizen or righteous moralist. If one nevertheless, meets with real spontaneity,
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  Speaker 2: which by the way, is a rare treat, it is
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  Speaker 2: not due to our method of rearing or educating the child.
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  Speaker 2: The personality often asserts itself regardless of official and family barriers.
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  Speaker 2: Such a discovery should be celebrated as an unusual event,
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  Speaker 2: since the obstacles placed in the way of growth and
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  Speaker 2: development of character are so numerous that it must be
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  Speaker 2: considered a miracle if it retains its strength and beauty
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  Speaker 2: and survives the various attempts at crippling that which is
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  Speaker 2: most essential to it. Indeed, he who has freed himself
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  Speaker 2: from the fetters of the thoughtlessness and stupidity of the commonplace,
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  Speaker 2: he who can stand without moral crutches, without the approval
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  Speaker 2: of public opinion, private laziness. Friedrich Nisia called it may
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  Speaker 2: well intone a high and voluminous song of independence and freedom.
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  Speaker 2: He has gained the right to it through fierce and
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  Speaker 2: fiery battles. These battles already begin at the most delicate age.
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  Speaker 2: The child shows its individual tendencies in its blaze, in
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  Speaker 2: its questions, in its association with people and things, But
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  Speaker 2: it has to struggle with everlasting external interference in its
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  Speaker 2: world of thought and emotion. It must not express itself
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  Speaker 2: in harmony with its nature, with its growing personality. It
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  Speaker 2: must become a thing an object. Its questions are met
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  Speaker 2: with narrow, conventional, ridiculous replies, mostly based on falsehoods. And
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  Speaker 2: when with large, wondering, innocent eyes it wishes to behold
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  Speaker 2: the wonders of the world. Those about it quickly lock
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  Speaker 2: the windows and doors and keep the delicate human plant
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  Speaker 2: in a hothouse atmosphere where it can neither breathe nor
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  Speaker 2: grow freely. Zola, in his novel Fecundity, maintains that large
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  Speaker 2: sections of people have declared death to the child, have
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  Speaker 2: conspired against the birth of the child, a very horrible picture, indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the conspiracy entered into by civilization against the growth
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  Speaker 2: and making of character seems to me far more terrible
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  Speaker 2: and disastrous, because of the slow and gradual destruction of
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  Speaker 2: its latent qualities and traits, and the stupefying and crippling
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  Speaker 2: effect thereof upon its social well being. Since every effort
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  Speaker 2: in our educational life seems to be directed toward making
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  Speaker 2: the child a being foreign to itself, it must of
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  Speaker 2: necessity produce individuals foreign to one another and in everlasting
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  Speaker 2: antagonism with each other. The ideal of the average pedagogist
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  Speaker 2: is not a complete, well rounded, original being. Rather, does
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  Speaker 2: he seek that the result of his art of pedagogy
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  Speaker 2: shall be automatons of flesh and blood to best fit
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  Speaker 2: into the treadmill of society and the emptiness and dulness
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  Speaker 2: of our lives. Every home, school, college, and university stands
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  Speaker 2: for dry, cold utilitarianism overflooding the brain of the pupil
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  Speaker 2: with a tremendous amount of ideas handed down from generations past.
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  Speaker 2: Facts and data, as they are called, constitute a lot
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  Speaker 2: of information, well enough perhaps to maintain every form of
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  Speaker 2: authority and to create much awe for the importance of possession,
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  Speaker 2: but only a great handicap to a true understanding of
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  Speaker 2: the human soul and its place in the world. Truths
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  Speaker 2: dead and forgotten long ago conceptions of the world and
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  Speaker 2: its people covered with mold, even during the times of
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  Speaker 2: our grandmothers, are being hammered into the heads of our
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  Speaker 2: young generation. Eternal change, thousandfold variations, continual innovation are the
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  Speaker 2: essence of life. Professional pedagogy knows nothing of it. The
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  Speaker 2: systems of education are being arranged into files, classified and numbered.
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  Speaker 2: They lack the strong, fertile seed which, falling on rich soil,
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  Speaker 2: enables them to grow to greater heights. They are worn
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  Speaker 2: and incapable of awakening spontaneity of character. Instructors and teachers
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  Speaker 2: with dead souls operate with dead values. Quantity is forced
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  Speaker 2: to take the place of quality. The consequences thereof are
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  Speaker 2: inevitable in whatever direction one turns eagerly searching for human
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  Speaker 2: beings who do not measure ideas and emotions with the
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  Speaker 2: yardstick of expediency. One is confronted with the products the herd,
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  Speaker 2: like drilling, instead of the result of spontaneous and innate
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  Speaker 2: characteristics working themselves out in freedom. No traces. Now I
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  Speaker 2: see whatever of a spirit's agency tis drilling nothing more.
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  Speaker 2: These words of faust fit our methods of pedagogy perfectly. Take,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, the way history is being taught in our schools.
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  Speaker 2: See how the events of the world become like a
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  Speaker 2: cheap puppet sh where a few wire pullers are supposed
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  Speaker 2: to have directed the course of development of the entire
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  Speaker 2: human race and the history of our own nation. Was
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  Speaker 2: it not chosen by providence to become the leading nation
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  Speaker 2: on earth? And does it not tower mountain high over
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  Speaker 2: other nations? Is it not the gem of the ocean?
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  Speaker 2: Is it not incomparably virtuous, ideal, and brave? The result
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  Speaker 2: of such ridiculous teaching is a dull, shallow patriotism, blind
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  Speaker 2: to its own limitations, with bull like stubbornness, utterly incapable
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  Speaker 2: of judging of the capacities of other nations. This is
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  Speaker 2: the way the spirit of youth is emasculated deadened through
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  Speaker 2: an overestimation of one's own value. No wonder public opinion
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  Speaker 2: can be so easily manufactured. Predigested food should be inscribed
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  Speaker 2: over every hall of learning as a warning to all
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  Speaker 2: who do not wish to lose their own personnels and
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  Speaker 2: their original sense of judgment, who instead would be content
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  Speaker 2: with a large amount of empty and shallow shells. This
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  Speaker 2: may suffice as a recognition of the menifold hindrances placed
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  Speaker 2: in the way of an independent mental development of the child.
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  Speaker 2: Equally numerous, and not less important, are the difficulties that
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  Speaker 2: confront the emotional life of the young. Must not one
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  Speaker 2: suppose that parents should be united to children by the
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  Speaker 2: most tender and delicate chords.
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  Speaker 1: One should suppose it.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, sad as it may be, it is nevertheless true
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  Speaker 2: that parents are the first to destroy the inner riches
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  Speaker 2: of their children. The scriptures tell us that God created
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  Speaker 2: man in his own image, which has by no means
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  Speaker 2: proven a success. Parents follow the bad example of their
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  Speaker 2: heavenly master. They use every effort to shape and mold
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the child according to their image, They tenaciously clinging to
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the idea that the child is merely part of themselves,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: an idea as false as it is injurious, and which
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: only increases the misunderstanding of the soul of the child,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of the necessary consequences of enslavement and subordination thereof. As
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: soon as the first rays of consciousness illuminate the mind
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: and heart of the child, it instinctively begins to compare
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: its own personality with the personality of those about it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: How many hard and cold stone cliffs meet its large,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: wondering gaze. Soon enough it is confronted with the painful
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: reality that it is here only to serve as inanimate
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: matter for parents and guardians, whose authority alone gives its
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: shape and form. The terrible struggle of the thinking man
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and woman against political, social, and moral conventions owes its
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: origin to the family, where the child is ever compelled
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: to battle against the internal and external use of force.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: The category co imperatives. You shall, you must, this is right,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: that is wrong, this is true, that is false. Shower
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: like a violent rain upon the unsophisticated head of the
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: young being, and impress upon its sensibilities that it has
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: to bow before the long established and hard notions of
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: thoughts and emotions. Yet the latent qualities and instincts seek
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: to assert their own peculiar methods of seeking the foundation
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: of things, of distinguishing between what is commonly called wrong,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: true or false. It is bent upon going its own way,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: since it is composed of the same nerves, muscles, and blood,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: even as those who assume to direct its destiny. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: fail to understand how parents hope that their children will
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: ever grow up into independent, self reliant spirits when they
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: strain every effort to abridge and curtail the various activities
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: of their children, the plus in quality and character which
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: differentiates their offspring from themselves, and by the virtue of
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: which they are eminently equipped carriers of new invigorating ideas.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: A young, delicate tree that is being clipped and cut
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: by the gardener in order to give it an artificial
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: form will never reach the majestic height and the beauty
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: as when allowed to grow in nature and freedom. When
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the child reaches adolescence, it meets added to the home
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: and school restrictions with a vast amount of hard traditions
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: of social morality. The cravings of love and sex are
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: met with absolute ignorance by the majority of parents, who
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: consider it as something indecent and improper, something disgraceful, almost criminal,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: to be suppressed and fought. Like some terrible disease. The
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: love and tender feelings in the young plant are turned
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: into vulgarity and coarseness through the stupidity of those surrounding it,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: so that everything fine and beautiful is either crushed altogether
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: or hidden in the innermost depths as a great sin
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: that dares not face the light. What is more astonishing
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: is the fact that parents will strip themselves of everything,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: will sacrifice everything for the physical wellbeing of their child,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: will wake nights and stand in fear and agony before
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: some physical ailment of their beloved one, but will remain
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: cold and indifferent without the slightest understanding before the soul,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: cravings and yearnings of their child, neither hearing nor wishing
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: to hear the loud knocking of the young spirit that
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: demands recognition. On the contrary, they will stifle the beautiful
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: voice of spring, of a new life, of beauty and
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: splendor of love. They will put the long, lean finger
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: of authority upon the tender throat and not allow vent
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: to the silvery song of the individual growth, of the
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: beauty of character, of the strength of love and human relation,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: which alone make life worth living. And yet these parents
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: imagine that they mean best for the child and for aught.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I know some really do, But their best means absolute
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: death and decay to the bud in the making. After all,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: they are but imitating their own masters in state, commercial, social,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: and moral affairs, by forcibly suppressing every independent attempt to
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: analyze the ills of society and every sincere effort toward
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the abolition of these ills, never able to grasp the
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: eternal truth that every method they employ serves as the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: greatest impetus to bring forth a greater longing for freedom
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: and a deeper zeal to fight for it. That compulsion
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: is bound to awaken resistance every parent and teacher ought
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: to know. Great surprise is being expressed over the fact
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: that the majority of children of radical parents are either
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: altogether opposed to the ideas of the latter, many of
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: them moving along the old, antiquated paths, or that they
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: are indifferent to the new thoughts and teachings of social regeneration.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: And yet there's nothing unusual in that radical parents, though
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: emancipated from the belief of ownership in the human soul,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: still cling tenaciously to the notion that they own the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: child and that they have the right to exercise their
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: authority over it. So they set out to mold and
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: form the child according to their own conception of what
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: is right and wrong, forcing their ideas upon it with
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the same vehemance that the average Catholic parent uses, and
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: with the ladder they hold out the necessity before the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: young to do as I tell you and not as
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I do. But the impressionable mind of the child realizes
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: early enough that the lie of their parents are in
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: contradiction to the ideas they represent. That like the good
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Christian who fervently prays on Sunday yet continues to break
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the Lord's commandments the rest of the week, the radical
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: parent arraigns God, priesthood, church, government, domestic authority, yet continues
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to adjust himself to the condition he abhors. Just so
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the freethought parent can proudly boast that his son of
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: four will recognize the picture of Thomas Paine or Ingersoll,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: or that he knows that the idea of God is stupid,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: or that the social democratic father can point to his
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: little girl of six and say who wrote the capitol
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: deary cow marks Pa, or that the anarchistic mother can
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: make it known that her daughter's name is Louise Michel
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Sophia Perovskaya, or that she can recite the revolutionary poems
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: of Hervek, Freiligrath or Shelley, and that she will point
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: out the faces of Spencer Bachanan or Moses Harmon almost anywhere.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: These are by no means exaggerations. They are sad facts
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: that I have met with in my experience with radical parents.
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  Speaker 2: What are the results of such methods of biasing the mind?
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  Speaker 2: The following is the consequence, and not very infrequent either.
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  Speaker 2: The child being fed on one sided sat and fixed
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: ideas soon grows weary of rehashing the beliefs of its parents,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: and it sets out in quest of new sensations. No
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: matter how inferior and shallow the new experience may be.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: The human mind cannot endure sameness and monotony. So it
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: happens that that boy or girl over fed on Thomas
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Paine will land in the arms of the church, or
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: they will vote for imperialism only to escape the drag
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: of economic determinism and scientific socialism, or that they open
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: a shirtwaist factory and cling to the right of accumulating
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: property only to find relief from the old fashioned communism
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: of their father, or that the girl will marry the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: next best man provided he can make a living, only
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: to run away from the everlasting talk on variety. Such
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: a condition of affairs may be very painful to the
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: parents who wish their children to follow in their path.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yet a look upon them is very refreshing and encouraging.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Psychological forces, they are the greatest guarantee that the independent mind,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: at least will always resist every external and foreign force
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: exercised over the human heart and head. Some will ask,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: what about weak natures? Must they not be protected?
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: But to be able to do that, it will be
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: necessary to realize that education of children is not synonymous
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: with herd like drilling and training. If education should really
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: mean anything at all, it must insist upon the free
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: growth and development of the innate forces and tendencies.
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  Speaker 1: Of the child.
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  Speaker 2: In this way alone can we hope for the free individual,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: and eventually also for a free community, which shall make
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  Speaker 2: interference and coercion of human growth impossible. End of section three.
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Alex Clark.
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  Speaker 4: Section four of Mother Earth, Volume one, number two, April
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  Speaker 4: nineteen oh six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 4: Mother Earth, Volume one, number two, April nineteen oh six.
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  Speaker 4: Section four Hope and five fear. Translated from the Jewish
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: of l I Perets. This sketch the writer had addressed
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: to Jewish social democrats. My heart is with you. My
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: eye does not get weary looking at your flaming banner,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: My ear does not get tired listening to your powerful song.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: My heart is with you. Man's hunger must be appeased,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: and he must have light. He must be free, and
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: he must be his own master, master over himself and
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: his work. And when you snap at the fist which
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: is trying to strangle you, your voice and your ardent protest
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: preventing you from being heard, I rejoice, praying that your
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: teeth may be sharpened. And when you are marching against
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Sodom and Gomorrah to tear down the old, my soul
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: is with you, and the certainty that you must triumph
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: fills and warms my heart and intoxicates me like old wine.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: And yet and yet you frighten me. I am afraid
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: of the bridle to calm, for they are apt to
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: become the oppressors, and every oppressor transgresses against the human soul.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Do you not talk among yourselves of how humanity is
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: to march like an army in line, and you are
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: going to sound for it the march on the road.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: And yet humanity is not an army. The stronger going forward,
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: the magnanimous feel more deeply, the proud rise higher. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: yet will you not lay down the cedar in order
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: that it may not outgrow the grass, Or will you
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: not spread your wings over mediocrity? Or will you not
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: shield indifference and protect the gray and uniformly fleeced herd.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: You frighten me As conquerors. You might become the bureaucracy
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: to dole out to everybody his morsel, as is the
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: usage in the poorhouse, to arrange work for everybody, as
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: it is done in the galleys. And you will thus
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: crush the creator of new worlds, the free human will,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: and fill up with earth, the purest spring of human happiness,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: human initiative, the power which braves one against thousands against
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: peoples and against generations. And you will systematize life and
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: bid it to remain on the level of the crowd.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: And will you not be occupied with regulations, registrating, recording, estimating,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: or will you not prescribe how fast and how often
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: the human pulse must beat, how far the human eye
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: must look ahead, how much the ear may perceive, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: what kinds of dreams the languishing heart may entertain. With
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: joy in my heart, I look at you when you
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: tear down the gates of sodom, but my heart trembles
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: at the same time, fearing that you might erect on
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: its ruins new ones, more chilling, and darker ones. There
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: will be no houses without windows, but fog will envelop
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: the souls. There will be no empty stomachs, but souls
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: will starve. No ear will hear cries of woe, but
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: the eagle, the human intellect, will stand at the trough
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: with clipped wings, together with the cow and the ox.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: And justice, which has accompanied you on the thorny and
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: bloody path to victory, will forsake you, and you will
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: not be aware of it, for conquerors and tyrants are
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: always blind. You will conquer and dominate and you will
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: plunge into injustice, and you will not feel the quagmire
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: under your feet. Every tyrant thinks he stands on firm
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: ground so long as he has not been vanquished. And
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: you will build prisons for those who dare to stretch
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: out their hands pointing to the abyss into which you sink.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: You will tear out the tongues of the mouth that
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: warn you against those who come after you to destroy
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: you and your injustice cruelly. You will defend the equality
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: of rights of the herd to use the grass under
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: its feet and the salt in the ground. And your
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: enemies will be the free individuals, the over men, the
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: ingenious inventors, the prophets, the saviors, the poets and artists.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Everything that comes to pass occurs in space and time.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: The present is the existing, the stalle, the firm, and
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: therefore the rigid and frozen, the today, which will and
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: must perish. Time is change, It varies and develops. It
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: is the eternally sprouting, the blossoming, the eternal mourning. And
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: as your mourning, to which you aspire, will become the today,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: you will become the upholders of the yesterday, of that
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: which is lifeless, dead. You will trample the sproutings of
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: tomorrow and destroy its blossoms, and pour streams of cold
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: water upon the heads that nestle your prophecies, your dreams,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: and your new hopes. That today is unwilling to die.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Bloody is every sunset. I yearn and hope for your victory,
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: but I fear and tremble for your victory. You are
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: my hope, and you are my fear. Nietzschee Zarathustra spake.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Thus he who wishes to say something should be silent
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: a long while, if the makers of public opinion would
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: only carry out this hint for about a lifetime. According
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: to the latest researches, it has been brought to light
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: that the grim angel who drove Adam and Eve out
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: of Paradise was named Comstock. As long as there are
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: women who must fear to become mothers on account of
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: economic difficulties or moral prejudices, the emancipation of women is
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: only a phrase. End of section.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Four, Section five of Mother Earth, Volume one, number two,
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: April nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: or to volunteer. Please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 5: John Brandon Mother Earth, Volume one, number two, April nineteen
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: o six, Section five John Most by M. B. John
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Most suddenly died in Cincinnati March seventeenth. He was on
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: an agitation trip, and when he reached Cincinnati, he took
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: sick with aerysepolis and died within a few days, surrounded
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: by his comrades. Shortly before that he had a fortune
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: to taste of the kindness and good breeding of the police.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Once more. Some friends in Philadelphia arranged a meeting to
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: celebrate most sixtieth birthday. He was one of the speakers,
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: but the police of that city interpreted the American Constitution,
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: which speaks of the right to free speech and assembly,
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: as giving the right to forcibly disperse the meeting. Conscious
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: misrepresentation and ignorance. The twin angels that hop over the
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: throne of the newspaper kingdom of this country have made
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: John Most a scarecrow. Organized police authorities and police justices
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: that can neither be accused of a surplus of intelligence
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: nor even of the shadow of love of fairness, made
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: him their target. Whenever they felt a great calling to
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: save their country from disaster. Naturally, the mob of law
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: abiding citizens must be assured from time to time that
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: their masters have a sacred duty to perform that they
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: earned the right of graft. Most was born at Augsburg, Bavaria,
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: February fifth, eighteen forty six. According to his memoirs, he
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: early found it necessary to resist the tyranny of a
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: stepmother and the miserable treatment of his master as a
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: bookbinder apprentice. At a very early age, he took to
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: his heels and went on the road of the world,
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: where he soon came in conflict with revolutionary ideas in
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: the labor movement, but greatly inspired him and urged him
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: to read and study. It might be more appropriately said
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: that he developed a ravenous appetite for knowledge and research
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: of all the works of human science. At that time,
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: socialistic ideas had just begun to exercise great influence upon
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: the thinking mind of the European continents. The zeal and
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: craving for knowledge displayed by the working people of those
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: days can hardly be properly estimated, especially by the proletariat
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: of this country, whose literature and source of knowledge chiefly
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: consists of the daily papers. Workingmen who worked ten and
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: twelve hours in factories and shops spent their evenings in
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: study and reading of economic, political, and philosophical works Ferdinand Lesal, Karl,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: Marx Engels, Kuhnin and later Kropopkin, also Henry George's Progress
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: and Poverty. Added to these were the works of materialistic
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: natural science schools such as Darwin Huxley, Mohlschat, Karl Vought,
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: Ludwig Bupner Haeckel, that constituted the mental diet of a
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: large number of working men of that period. Just as
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: the revolutionary economists were hailed as the liberators of physical slavery,
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: so were the materialistic naturalistic sciences accepted as the saviors
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: from mental narrowness and darkness. Most was untiring in his
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: work of popularizing these ideas, and as he could quickly
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: grasp things, he was tremendously successful in simplifying scientific books
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: into pamphlets and essays accessible to the ordinary intelligence of
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: the working people. He possessed a marvelous memory. Once he
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: got hold of an amount of data, he could easily
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: avail himself of it at any moment. This was particularly
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: true in the domain of history, with its compilation of
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: blood curdling events from which he drew his conclusions of
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: how the human race ought not to live. Together with
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: his journalistic activity, he combined oral propaganda. His power of
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: delivery was marvelous, and those who heard him in his
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: early days will understand why the powers of the world
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: stood in awe before him. He not only had a
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: very convincing way, but he succeeded in keeping his audiences
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: spellbound or to bring them to the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: The scene of his first great activity was in Vienna,
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: where he was soon met with many indictments and persecutions
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: from the authorities, who mercilessly pursued him for the rest
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: of his life. After a term of him prisonment in
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: several American prisons, he went to Germany, where he became
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: the editor of the Free press in Berlin. But his
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: original and biting criticism of bureaucracy again brought him in
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: conflict with the powers that be. The Berlin prison placency
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: soon closed its doors on the culprit. Even today, those
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: who visit that famous institution of civilization are still shown
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: most cell At that time, Bismarck carried an unsuccessful battle
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: against the power of the Catholic Church, eager to subordinate
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: her to the state authority. It happened that the famous
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: leader of the Catholic Party, Majunk, was sent for a
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: term of imprisonment to Platncy, where the prisoners were let
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: out for their daily walk. The leader of the Reds,
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: John Most, met the leader of the Blacks Majunk. Situation
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: was comical enough to cause amusement to both. Both being brilliant,
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: they found enough interesting material for conversation, which helped them
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: over the dreariness and monotony of prison life. Several years later,
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: this Mark succeeded in enacting the Muzzle Law against Social Democracy,
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: which destroyed the freedom of the press and assembly. The
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: question arose, then, what could be done. Most had been
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: elected to the Reichstag, representing the famous factory town Chemnitz,
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: but his experience in Parliament only served him to despise
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: the representative system and professional law making more than ever.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: When leaders of social democracy like Bebel and Leibnek thought
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: it more expedient to adapt themselves to conditions, Most went
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: to London, where he continued his revolutionary literary crusade in
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: the fry Height. He came in contact with Karl Marx,
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Engels and various other refugees who lived in England. Marx
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: assured Most that his sharp pen in the fry Height
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: was not likely to cause him any trouble in England
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: so long as the Conservative Party was in power, but
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: that nothing good was to be expected of the Liberal Party.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: Marx was right. Shortly after Most's arrival in London, his
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: paper was seized and he was arrested on the indictment
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: for inciting to murder because he paid a glowing tribute
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: to the revolutionists of Russia, who on the first of
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: March eighteen eighty one executed Alexander the second. He was
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: tried and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment to one of
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: the barbarous English prisons. Most gradually developed into way an anarchist,
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: representing communist anarchism the organization of production and consummation based
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: on free industrial groups and which exclude state and bureaucratic interference.
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: His ideas were related to those of Propatkin and Elessy Reclus.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: He often assured me that he considered Propotkin his teacher
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: and that he owed much of his mental development to him.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: The next aim of the hounded man was America, but
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: it does not appear that he was followed across the
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: ocean by his lucky star. He soon was made to
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: feel that free speech and free press in this great
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: republic was but a myth. Time and again he was arrested,
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: brutally treated by the police, and sentenced to time in
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: the penitentiary. Added to this came the fearful attacks and
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: misrepresentations of Most and his ideas by the press, many
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: of the articles making him appear as a wild beast,
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: ever plotting destruction. The last sentence inflicted upon him was
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: after the Zolgas Act. He was arrested for an article
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: by the radical Karl Heinzen that had been written many
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: years ago, and the author of which had been dead
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: a long time. The article had not the slightest relation
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: to the Act, did not contain a single reference to
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: the conditions of this country, and treated altogether the European
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: conditions of fifty years ago. In the face of this sentence,
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: one cannot but help think of Tolstoy's power of darkness,
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: only the power of darkness in the minds of the
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: judges before whom Most was tried and the newspaper men
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: who helped in arousing public opinion against him, were responsible
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: for the sentence inflicted upon him. Taking most lifes. Superficially,
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: it would appear that his road was hard and thorny,
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: but looking at it from a thorough viewpoint one will
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: realize that all his hardships and injustices had made of
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: him a relentless, uncompromising rebel who continued to wage war
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: against the enemies of the people, with but few exceptions.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: The American journalists censured the immoral profession of Missus Warren.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: Is it not heavenly irony that God pressed the Headman's
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: sword of morals into the hands of the newspaper writers.
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: Perhaps the Great God Pan thought they would be the
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: fittest to handle the sword, since they are so intimately
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: associated with mental prostitution. End of chapter five. Recording by
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  Speaker 5: John Brandon.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Section six of Mother Earth, volume one, number two, April
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: nineteen six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: Earth volume one, number two, April nineteen six. Civilization in Africa.
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  Speaker 1: A large strong man, dressed in a uniform and armed
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: to the teeth, knocked at the door of a hut
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: on the west coast of Africa. Who are you and
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: what do you want? Said a voice from the inside,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: in the name of civilization, Open your door, or I'll
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: break it down for you and feel you full of lead.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: But what do you want here? My name is Christian civilization.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Don't talk like a fool, you black brute. What do
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: you suppose I want here but to civilize you and
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: make a reasonable human being out of you. If that
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: is possible, What are you going to do in the
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: first place? You must dress yourself like a white man.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: It is a shame and disgrace the way you go about.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: From now on, you must wear underclothing, a pair of pants, vest, coat,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: plug hat, and a pair of yellow gloves. I will
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: furnish them to you at reasonable rates. What shall I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: do with them? Wear them? Of course, you did not
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: expect to eat them, did you. The first step to
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: civilization is in wearing proper clothes. But it is too
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: hot here to wear such carments. I am not used
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: to them. I'll perish from the heat. Do you want
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: to murder me, not particularly, but if you do die,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: you will have the satisfaction of being a martyr to civilization.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: How kind, don't mention it? What do you do for
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: a living? When I am hungry, I eat a banana,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: I eat, drink, or sleep just as I feel like it.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: What horrible barbarity. You must settle down to some occupation,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: my friend. If you don't, it will be my duty
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: to lock you up as a vagrant. If I have
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: to follow some occupation, I think I'll start a coffee house.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I've got a considerable amount of coffee and sugar stored
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: here and there. Oh you have have you? Why you
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: are not such a hopeless case as I thought you
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: were in the first place. You want to pay me
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: the sum of fifty dollars? What for as an occupation tax?
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: You ignorant heathen? Do you expect all the blessings of
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: civilization for nothing? But I have no money? That makes
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: no difference. I'll take it out in tea your coffee.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: If you don't pay up like a Christian man, I'll
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: put you in jail for the rest of your life.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: What is jail? Jail is a progressive word. You must
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: be prepared to make some sacrifices for civilization. You know
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: what a great and glorious thing is, civilization. You cannot
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: possibly realize the benefits of it, but you will before
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I get through with you, My fine fellow. The unfortunate
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Nettu took to the woods and has not been seen since.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Waverley Magazine into section.
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: Six, Section seven of Mother Earth, Volume one, number two
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: April nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 6: Josh Kibbi, Mother Earth, Volume on number two, April nineteen
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: o six. Section seven Our Purpose by Mary Hanson. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: come not with the blaring of trumpet to herald the
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: birth of a king. I come not with traditional story
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: the life of a savior to sing. I come not
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: with jests for the silly. I come not to worship
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: the strong, but to question the powers the govern to
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: point out a world old wrong, to kiss from the
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: starved lips of childhood, the lies that are sapping its breath,
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: and brighten the brief, cheerless valley that leads to the
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: darkness of death, with reason and sympathy blended, and a
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: hope that all mankind shall see a trammeled by creed,
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: law or custom, the attainable goal of the free. End
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: of section seven.
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  Speaker 7: Section eight of Mother Earth, Volume one, number two, April
• 54:17
  Speaker 7: nineteen oh six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 54:23
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• 54:31
  Speaker 7: Home by John R.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Cariel.
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: You remember Punch's advice to the young man about to
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: be married, don't There is a just nearly half a
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: century old, and yet ever fresh and poignant. Why can
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: it be that the secret, serious voice of mankind proclaims
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: the gest truth and masquerade? Can it be that marriage
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: as an institution has indeed proved itself in experienced such
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: a terrible failure? We worship many fetishes. We have the
• 55:04
  Speaker 7: superior civilization, and the institution of marriage is the chief
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: of them.
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: Two of us.
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: But bow before that, before that, and the home of
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: which it is the foundation. And I know what scorn
• 55:17
  Speaker 7: and obloquy and denunciation await that man who stands unawed
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: before it, seeing in it but an ugly little idol.
• 55:25
  Speaker 7: And I guess what will be dealt out to him
• 55:27
  Speaker 7: who not only refuses to bow ahead, but openly scoffs.
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: And yet I'm going to scoff and say ugly words
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: about this fetish of ours. I'm going to say that
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: it represents ignorance, hides and causes hypocrisy, stands in the
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: way of progress, drags low the standard of individual excellence,
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: perpetuates many foul practices. Let me admit at the outset
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: that I recognize in the institution of marriage a perfectly
• 55:56
  Speaker 7: legitimate result of the working of the law of evolution.
• 56:00
  Speaker 7: Of course it is, and the same may be said
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: of everything that exists, whether good or evil. Every vile
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: and filthy thing, crime, disease, misery are all equally legitimate
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: products of the working of this law. Evolution is simply
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: the process of the logical working of things. It explains
• 56:19
  Speaker 7: how things come to be, and there's nothing in the
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: nature of the law to enable it to give to
• 56:24
  Speaker 7: its results. The hallmark of sterling a thing is because
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: of something else that was Marriage is because of a
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: primeval club man craved woman, and he procured her. Considering
• 56:37
  Speaker 7: the beginnings of the institution of marriage. It is interesting,
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: if nothing more, to consider the efforts of the priest
• 56:44
  Speaker 7: to give it an attribute of sanctity, to call it
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: a sacrament. In truth, marriage is the most artificial of
• 56:52
  Speaker 7: the relations which exist in the social body. It's a
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: device of man at his worst, a mixture of slavery, egotism,
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: and priestcraft. It is indicated by nothing in the physical
• 57:05
  Speaker 7: constitution of either male or female. It is an anomaly,
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: a contract which can be freely entered into by the
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: most unfit, but which cannot be broken, though both parties
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: wish it. Though absolute unfitness be patent, though hell on
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: Earth be its result. The pretense must be abandoned that
• 57:25
  Speaker 7: men and women marry in order to reproduce their kind.
• 57:29
  Speaker 7: Nothing could be less true. Marriage legalizes reproduction, but is
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: not caused by desire for it. Marriage is the hard
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: and fast tying together of a man and a woman
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: without the least regard to moral or physiological conditions. Marriage
• 57:48
  Speaker 7: may be for a pecuniary gain or for social advancement.
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: It may be at the will of a controlling parent,
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: or more commonly, for Saint Paul's reason that it is
• 57:58
  Speaker 7: better to marry than to burn, but never for the
• 58:02
  Speaker 7: reason that the parties to it are fitted to each
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: other for parenthood. That supreme consideration not only does not
• 58:09
  Speaker 7: enter into either the preliminary or afterthought of the matter,
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: but is even held to be an indecent topic of
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: conversation between persons not already married to each other. The
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: constituents of the average marriage are a man over stimulated
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: sexually by mystery and ignorance, and a woman abnormally under
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: sext by the course of self repression and self mutilation,
• 58:33
  Speaker 7: which have been taught her from her earliest childhood as
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: necessities of modesty, purity, and virtue.
• 58:41
  Speaker 8: And we are asked to.
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: Believe that out of such elements are created the best
• 58:45
  Speaker 7: foundation for a race or nation. Surely, surely that combination
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: of conditions is the best for a race or a
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: nation which produces the best individuals. And quite as surely
• 58:58
  Speaker 7: we should strive to bring about those conditions which tend
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: to produce the best individuals. Then there's home, Home, Sweet home,
• 59:08
  Speaker 7: the perfect flower we are told that blooms on the
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: fair stem of marriage. Yet it is the very citadel
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: of ignorance, when it should be the school in which
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: are taught the beautiful phenomena of physical life home, where
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: the simplest, purest facts of life are converted into a
• 59:28
  Speaker 7: nasty mystery and deliberately endowed with the characteristics of impurity
• 59:32
  Speaker 7: and sin. For what else is the meaning of that
• 59:35
  Speaker 7: solemn formula which most of us have been taught that
• 59:39
  Speaker 7: we were conceived in sin? What else is the meaning
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: of the hush and blush that go to any reference
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: to sex, sign or manifestation of sex. Is it not
• 59:49
  Speaker 7: awful beyond the power of words to express that a
• 59:53
  Speaker 7: man and a woman come together in ignorance and beget
• 59:57
  Speaker 7: children who are not even to obtain the benefit of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 7: such knowledge, as their unfortunate parents pick up by the way,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 7: but must themselves begin the most responsible functions of life,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: not only an equal ignorance, but with an added load
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: of misconceptions, sex, superstitions, immoral dogmas, and probably physical disabilities.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 7: A short time since, a father was speaking to me
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 7: of his son fourteen years of age, and plainly at
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 7: an age when some of the beautiful phenomena of sex
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 7: life were beginning to crowd upon him. For notice, I
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: asked the man if he had talked with his son
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: about the matter His answer was peculiar only in that
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 7: he put into words a description of the attitude of
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: the average parent talk to him about that. Not I
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 7: let him learn as I did. No one ever told me,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: but someone had told him, as his unpleasantly reminiscent smile
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 7: advised me, he had been told by ignorant companions, by
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: ignorant servants, and quite likely by books whose grossness would
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 7: have been harmless but for the child's piteous ignorance. No,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 7: the man would not talk with his son about such things.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 7: But he would go into his club and talk into
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 7: the small hours over a glass of whiskey with his friends. There,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 7: turning the beauty and purity of sex manifestation into shabby
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 7: jest and impure ridicule. He would exchange stories based on
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 7: sex relation with any stranger with whom he might ride
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: for two hours in a smoking car. Every man knows
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 7: that I speak well within bounds. And the girl child,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 7: what of her? Does her mother, the victim of misinformation
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 7: and no information, of misuse and self mutilation in the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 7: sweet privacy of this home, which is called the cradle
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 7: of peace, in the nesting place of purity, save her
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 7: by taking warning of her own ruined life, and giving
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 7: her the benefit of such little knowledge as she has
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 7: gained in physical, mental, and moral misery, we know she
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 7: does not. On the contrary, the same terrible old lies
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 7: are told, the same hideous practices are resorted to, and
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 7: another pure creature is launched into that awful life of
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 7: legalized prostitution, which is called marriage. Motherhood is woman's highest function,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: and moreover, it is a function which it is unwise
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: not to exercise, for it is infinitely more perilous for
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: a healthy woman not to be a mother than it
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 7: is her to bear children. Motherhood, too, is the most
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 7: markedly indicated function of a woman's body. She is specialized
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: for it. It is the thing indicated. And yet we
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: never say to a woman, be a mother. When you will,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 7: We hold up our hands in horror at the very
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: thought of motherhood itself, and we say, marry, marry anything,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 7: Get another name for yourself, merge your very identity into
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: that of some man, Get a home. Never mind about children,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: you don't have to have them. They have nothing to
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 7: do with your respectability. Is it not so? Is it
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: not so that that woman who prefers her own name
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: and her freedom, and who exercises her highest function of motherhood,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 7: thereby becomes a thing of scorn and contumely. And yet,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 7: how in this world can a woman do a finer, wiser, braver,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: truer thing than to bear a child in freedom by
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: carefully chosen father. It is true that we have moralists
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: who urge wives to breed for the good of the country.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 7: But even they, while declaring that is the duty of
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: women to have large families, roll their eyes in horror
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: at the thought of a woman exercising her plainest right
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 7: without first having some man whose only interest in the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 7: matters is fee say some magic words over her and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 7: her master. Oh that marriage ceremony. And is it not
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: pathetic to hear the women, dimly conscious of their backbones,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 7: declaring that they will not promise to obey. They will
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 7: promise vehemently to love and honor, which they absolutely cannot
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: be sure of doing. But they refuse to obey the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 7: only thing they could safely promise to do, and which
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 7: in fact most of them do, for ripe and twist
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: as they may define, ever so bravely, the conventions of
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: the world are against them, and conform they must down. Down,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 7: they sink until they are on their knees in the
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 7: mire of tradition, their heads bowed to the ugly little fetish.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 7: A woman maybe a thousand times the superior of her husband,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: and yet she must be his slave. And what curial fables,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: what transparent lies are told to reconcile the poor slave
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 7: to her lot a man's rib, and she's the weaker vessel. Nevertheless,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 7: she is the power behind the throne. And if the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 7: man possess her, does she not equally possess him? Is
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: not monogamy? The mainstay of our morals, is not God?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 7: To be thanked that he has given us light to
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: see the horrors of polygamy. Oh, that shocking thing, polygamy.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: How the husbands of the land rise up to defend
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: their firesides from it. No smooths shall get into our senate,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 7: that virtuous senate. Why if every practicing polygamist went home
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 7: from the Congress, there would not be a quorum left
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 7: to do business. Monogamy, Why it's the most shocking phase
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 7: of the hypocrisy due to marriage. There is no such
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: condition known in this country. Of course, there are maybe
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 7: sporadic cases of it, but that is all. If monogamy
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 7: be the practice of the men of this country. Why
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: the hundreds of thousands of prostitutes, why divorces for adultery,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 7: Why those secret establishments were unhappily married? Men indemnify themselves
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 7: for the appearance of monogamy by an association which can
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 7: be ended at will. Whence come the mulattoes and the
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: half breeds of all sorts. Who's so credulous as to
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 7: believe the fable of monogamy? What has monogamy, or polygamy
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 7: or polyandry to do it this matter? I assume that
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 7: it is undeniable that motherhood is woman's most manifest function.
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  Speaker 7: If that be so, how can there be any more
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  Speaker 7: immorality in the exercise of it than in the process
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 7: of digestion? What can be clearer than that a woman
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 7: has the inherent right to bear children if she wish,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: and there's nothing inexperience or morals which demands one father
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 7: for all her children. It should be for her to
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 7: say whether she will have one father for all her
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: children or one for each. And if the question be asked,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: how under such conditions the interests of the children would
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 7: be safeguarded? I ask if they are safeguarded?
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 7: The right minded man provides as he can for them,
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  Speaker 7: as would be the case always, while the wrong mind
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 7: man does not now provide properly for them. Besides, is
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 7: the mother not to be considered. Do we not all
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: know of women who, in widowhood take care of their families?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: Do we not know of women who take care of
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: their husbands as well as their children? Women, of course,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 7: should in any case be economically free. That at least,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: let them be sex free.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 8: Let them decide for.
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  Speaker 7: Themselves whether they will have many or few or no children.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 7: Teach women to be economically independent, Give her the opportunity
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 7: for full knowledge of all that pertains to motherhood. Make
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 7: the motherhood a pure and beautiful manifestation of physical activity,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 7: if you will, but without forgetting that it is only
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 7: simple and natural, avoiding that hysterical glorification of the function
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 7: in poetry and the hiding of it in actual life
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 7: as if it were an unclean thing. But the important
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 7: matter is to understand that a woman has a right
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 7: to bear a child if she wish. Nothing is more
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 7: distinctly pointed out by the constitution of her body, And
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 7: therefore it is impossible that there can be any immorality
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 7: in the exercise of the function to put my idea
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 7: in as few and as bold words as I can.
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  Speaker 7: Motherhood is a right and has no proper relation to marriage.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 7: Marriage is a purely artificial relation, and not only is
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 7: it not justified by its results, but distinctly it is
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 7: discredited by them. By it, a man becomes a vile hypocrite,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 7: since he loudly avows a moral standard and a course
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 7: of conduct, which in private, by his acts, he denies
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 7: and puts to scorn. By it, a woman becomes a slave,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 7: giving up her rights in her own body, submitting to ravishment,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 7: and becoming the accidental mother to unwished, unwelcome children. By it,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: children are robbed of their plain right to the best
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: equipment that can be given them, and which cannot be
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: given them under the prevailing system. It is only when
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 7: a woman is free to choose the father of her
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 7: child that the child can hope for even a partial
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 7: payment of the debt that was due it from its
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 7: parents from the moment they took the responsibility of calling
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 7: it from the nowhere into the here. This doctrine of
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: the responsibility of the parent to the child is comparatively new.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 7: It goes neither with marriage nor with the home. The
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 7: old and current notion is that the child is a chattel.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 7: Abraham never offers an apology for making little eyaac carrey wood,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 7: and then mount the sacrificial pile. Indeed, we are asked
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 7: to marvel at the heroism of the father. Then we're
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 7: told that God so loved the world that he gave
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 7: his only begotten son, as if the child were the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 7: property of the parent. And yet there must always have
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 7: been naughty children asking pointed questions, for it was long
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 7: ago found necessary to try to scare them by a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 7: divine fulmination. Honor thy Father and thy mother, that the
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 7: days may be long. It seems that even so long
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 7: ago parents were afraid they could not win honor from
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: their children. Abraham's place was on the pile, just as
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 7: it is the place of the modern parent, who looks
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 7: upon his child as his chattel, disposing of him as
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 7: he will, arbitrarily making rules for his conduct which he
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 7: would not dream of observing for himself, stifling his natural
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: demands for knowledge, converting what is pure and most beautiful
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 7: in the world into a mire of filth and ignorance,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 7: willfully robbing him of his birthright of individuality by forcing
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 7: him to conform to methods of thought and conduct which
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: his own experience tells him no man can or does
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 7: conform to from the moment he wins his freedom or
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 7: learns the hideous lesson of that hypocrisy, which he is
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 7: sure in the end to discover that his father practices.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 7: What right has any father to make a sacrifice of
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: his child? What is his title to the love, or
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 7: attitude or self abnegation of his child? Is it that
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 7: the child is the unconsidered consequence of the legal rape
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 7: of some poor woman who's been unfitted for the office
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 7: forced upon her by a life mentally dwarfed, morally twisted,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 7: and physically mutilated. Is it that the child is hailed
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 7: out of nothingness to be inoculated, perhaps with terms of
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 7: disease in the first instance, and then half nursed for
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: nine months in a body which has been robbed of
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 7: its vitality by the mutilation and torture to which it
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 7: has been subjected. At the behast of fashion. The highest
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 7: duty of a parent is to so treat his child
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 7: that it will enter upon the struggle of life prepared
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 7: to obtain the utmost happiness from it. If anyone fancies
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 7: I've been too severe in my strictures, I would ask
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 7: him to read what Missus Gilman has to say on
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 7: the subject of home. It is true that she does
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: not come to the same conclusions that I do. She
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 7: would have women economically independent, and she would have children
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 7: and taken care of by those especially fitted for the task,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 7: leaving mothers and fathers free to go their separate ways.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 7: But how could there be separate ways so long as
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: the slavery of marriage remained. Woman must be not only
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 7: economically free, but altogether free. As I've said, motherhood is
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 7: not an affair of morals. It is a function. Marriage,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 7: on the other hand, is a matter of morals, and
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 7: hideously immoral it is too. Then why not have motherhood
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 7: without its immoral artificial adjunct marriage? You see, I do
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 7: not ask for easy divorce as a solution of the
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 7: problem of marriage. I set my face sternly against divorce.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 7: I'm one with the Church in that I only demand
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 7: that there shall be no marriage at all, that there
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 7: shall be no fastening of lifelong slavery on woman. Let
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: woman mother children are not as she will let her say,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 7: Who shall be the father of her child, and of
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 7: each child. Let motherhood be deemed not even honorable, but
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 7: only natural. Can anyone believe that if men and women
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 7: were free to decide whether or not they would be parents,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 7: they would not, in the end, seeing their duty in
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 7: the light of their knowledge, fit themselves for parenthood before
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 7: taking upon themselves its responsibilities. I would like to say
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 7: that I have no fear of the odium of the
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 7: designation of a conoclast, nor do I quake lest someone
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 7: triumphantly asks me what I will put in place of
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 7: marriage in the home. As well might one demand what
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 7: I would give in the place of smallpox if I
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 7: were able to eradicate it. I am not concerned to
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 7: find a substitute for such perversion of sex activity. If
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 7: men and women choose to live together in freedom, bothering
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 7: and mothering their children according to a rule grown out
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 7: of freedom and directed by expediency, I fancy they would
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 7: be at least as happy as they can be now
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 7: tied together by a hard, unpleasant knot. And if an
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 7: economically free woman chose to have six children by six
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 7: different fathers, as a wise woman might well do I
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 7: believe she can be trusted to secure those children from want,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 7: quite as well as the mother slave of today, who
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 7: bears her children at the will of an irresponsible man,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 7: and then often enough, has to take care of them
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 7: and him too. Wealth protects and animates art in literature
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 7: as the do enlivens the fields nonsense. Wealth animates art
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 7: and literature as the whistle of the master animates the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: dog and makes him wag his tail. End of section eight.
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  Speaker 7: Recording by Lynn Handler.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 9: Section nine of Mother Earth, volume one, number two, April
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 9: nineteen oh six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 9: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 9: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Mother Earth, volume one,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 9: number two, April nineteen o six. Section nine The modern newspaper.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 9: Let me described to you very briefly a newspaper day figure. First,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 9: then a hastily erected and still more hastily designed building
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 9: in a dirty paper littered back street of London, and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 9: a number of shabbily dressed men coming and going in
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 9: this with a projectile swiftness. Within this factory companies of
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 9: printers tensely active with nimble fingers. They were always speeding
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 9: up the printers ply their type, setting machines and cast
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 9: and arrange masses of metal in a sort of kitchen inferno,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 9: above which, in a beehive of little, brightly lit rooms,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 9: disheveled men sit and scribble. There is a throbbing of
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 9: telephones and a clicking of telegraph instruments, a rushing of messengers,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 9: a running to and fro of heated men clutching proofs,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 9: and then begins a roar of machinery catching the infection,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 9: going faster and faster, and whizzing and banging. Engineers who
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 9: have never had time to wash since their birth fly
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 9: about with oil cans, while paper runs off its rolls
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 9: with a shudder of haste. The proprietor, you must suppose,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 9: arriving explosively on a swift motor car, leaping out before
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: the thing is at a standstill, with letters and documents
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 9: clutched in his hand, rushing in resolute to hustle, getting
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 9: wonderfully in everybody's way at the sight of him. Even
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 9: the messenger boys who are waiting get up and scamper
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 9: to and fro, sprinkle your vision with collisions, curses incoherencies.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 9: You imagine all the parts of this complex lunatic machine,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 9: working hysterically towards a crescendo of haste and excitement as
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 9: the night wears on. At last, the only things that
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 9: seem to travel slowly in those tearing, vibrating premises are
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 9: the hands of the clock. Slowly things draw on toward publication,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: the consummation of all those stresses. Then, in the small hours,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 9: in the now dark and deserted streets, comes a wild
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 9: whirl of carts and men. The place spurts paper at
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 9: every door, bales heaps, torrents of papers that are snatched
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 9: and flung about in what looks like a free fight,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 9: and off with a rush and clatter, east, west, north
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 9: and south, the interest passes outwardly. The men from little
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 9: rooms are going homeward. The printers disperse, yawning, the roaring
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 9: presses slacken, The paper exists. Distribution follows manufacture, and we
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 9: follow the bundles. Our vision becomes a vision of dispersal.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 9: You see those bundles hurling into stations, catching trains by
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 9: a hair's breadth, speeding on their way, breaking up smaller
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 9: bundles of them, hurled with a fierce accuracy out upon
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 9: the platforms that rush by, and then everywhere a division
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 9: of these smaller bundles into still smaller bundles, into dispersing parcels,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 9: into separate papers. The dawn happens unnoticed amidst a great
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 9: running and shouting of boys, as shoving through lettersts, openings
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 9: of windows, spreading out upon bookstalls. For the space of
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 9: a few hours, you must figure the whole country dotted
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 9: white with rustling papers, placards everywhere, vociferate the hurried lie
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 9: for the day. Men and women in trains, men and
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 9: women eating and reading, men by sturdy fenders, people sitting
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 9: up in bed, mothers and sons and daughters waiting for
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: father to finish. A million scattered people are reading, reading,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 9: headlong or feverishly ready to read. It is just as
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 9: if some vehement jet had sprayed that white foam of
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 9: papers over the surface of the land. Nonsense. The whole
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 9: affair is a noisy paroxysm of nonsense, unreasonable excitement, witless mischief,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 9: and a waste of strength signifying nothing. From H. G.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 9: Wells in the Days of the comet end of section nine.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 9: Recording by Stephen Harvey, Section ten of Mother Earth, Volume one,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 9: number two April nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 9: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 9: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Mother Earth,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 9: Volume one, number two, April nineteen o six. Section ten.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 9: A visit to Sing Sing by a Moralist. I was
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 9: on the way the everlasting decency and respectability of my
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 9: surroundings board me. On whichever side of me I looked,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 9: I saw people doing the same things for the same reasons,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 9: or for the same lack of reasons. And these were uninteresting, Oh,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 9: said I to myself. These are the people of the rights.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 9: They that go that way because others have gone. They
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 9: are conforming. But there must be some person who do
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 9: not conform. Where are they now? You can understand why
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 9: it was that my thoughts turned toward that monument of
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 9: our civilization on the Hudson River, and why finally I
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 9: made up my mind to visit it. I knew that
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 9: neither my citizenship, nor yet my philosophic and human interest
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 9: in the working of that great school, would avail to
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 9: obtain me entrance there. So I sought out one of
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 9: the politicians of my district, who at that time at
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 9: least exercised his activities outside of the walls of the building,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 9: and I exchanged with him a five dollar bill for
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 9: an order to admit me. I suppose, I said to
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 9: the attendant who did the honors of the place for me,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 9: that these people who are guard alike and who affect
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 9: the same tonsorial effect are those who have been unskillful
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 9: in their nonconformity. There prisoners, he replied. I bit my
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 9: lip and looked as smug as I remembered, one should
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 9: who as yet has the right of egress as well
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 9: as ingress in an institution of that character. At that moment,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 9: my eyes fell on a face that seemed familiar to me,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 9: and as I studied it, I saw with surprise that
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 9: I had come upon a man who had once been
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 9: a schoolmate of mine. Now, I had always believed that
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 9: if a person had done wrong, he would be conscious
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 9: of it, and that if he were found out, he
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 9: would at least try to appear penitent. But in this
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 9: case my theory did not seem to be working. For
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 9: my former chum, whom I remembered as a quiet and
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 9: obtrusive fellow, met my startled glance with a twinkle of
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 9: suppressed humor. I confess that such a blow to my
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 9: theory filled me with indignation. I stepped toward him, all
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 9: my moral superiority, betraying itself in the self satisfied smirk
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 9: which fixed itself on my face, in accordance with the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 9: sense of duty which the philistine feels so keenly in
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 9: his relations with others. Why are you here? I asked him. Eh,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 9: are you not a little impertinent? He asked, I do
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 9: not inquire of you why you are here? That is obvious,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 9: to say the least, I answered, loftily. Obvious from your
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 9: pharricycal expression, perhaps, he said, good naturedly. But never mind,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 9: we look at the matter from different points of view.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 9: To me, it is a greater indiscretion to annoy a
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 9: helpless prisoner with wholier than thou questions than it would
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 9: be to attend the charity ball in pajamas. But of
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 9: course you do not see it in the same light.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 9: Pardon me if I annoyed you, I said, stiffly. Don't
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 9: mention it, he replied, with the humorous twinkle still playing
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 9: in his eyes. And to prove that I bear no
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 9: hard feelings, I will ask you some questions. Naturally, I
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 9: was embarrassed at such an exhibition of hardihood and one
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 9: of his situation, but I said I would be pleased
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 9: to answer him to the best of my ability. It
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 9: is sometime since I was away from this retreat on
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 9: a vacation, he said, with an easy assurance that was
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 9: indescribably shocking to one of correct principles. And I would
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 9: like to know if all the rascals have yet been
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 9: put in prison. I pushed my insurance policy a little
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 9: deeper into my pocket and replied with conviction. Certainly not.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 9: But you must not forget that no man is guilty
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 9: until he has been proven so ah, yes, he said,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 9: and that a man may pride himself on his honesty
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 9: on the secure ground that he has not yet reached
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 9: the penitentiary. Yes, of course you are right. But tell me,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 9: is it true according to a rumor which has reached
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 9: us in our seclusion, that these good Christians pro tem
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 9: are considering the advisability of having a rat poison served
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 9: to us in place of the delicious, stale bread and
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 9: flat water which now comprise our bill of fare. Oh,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 9: I answered vaguely. There are still reformers of all sorts
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 9: in the world. Reformers, he cried, his face lighting up
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 9: with a new interest. Ah, you mean those profound thinkers
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 9: who seek to cure every disease of the social body
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 9: by means of legislation. Yes, yes, tell me about them.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 9: Society still believes in them, believes in them, I cried indignantly.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 9: Surely it does. Why the great political parties are responding
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 9: to the cry of the downtrodden masses. And oh, he
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 9: said dreamily, they are still responding. And you mean by
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 9: still responding, I demanded curtly, why. I remember that in
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 9: my time too, the people always responded. The party leaders
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 9: would say to them that they were in a bad
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 9: way and needed help. The people would cry out in
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 9: joy to think their leaders had discovered this. Then the
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  Speaker 9: leaders would wink at each other and jump upon the
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  Speaker 9: platforms and explain to the people that what was needed
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  Speaker 9: was a new law of some sort. The people would
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  Speaker 9: weep for happiness at such wisdom, and would beg their
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  Speaker 9: leaders to get together and make the law. And the
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  Speaker 9: law that the leaders would make when they got together
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  Speaker 9: was one that would put the people still more in
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  Speaker 9: their power. So that is still going on. I recognized
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  Speaker 9: that he was ironical, but I answered with a sneer.
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  Speaker 9: The people get what they deserve and what they wish.
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  Speaker 9: I have only to demand it through the ballot box,
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  Speaker 9: you know. Ah, yes, he murmured with a grin. I
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  Speaker 9: had forgotten the ballot box. Dear me, how could I
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  Speaker 9: have forgotten the basut? Providentially, the keeper came to notify
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  Speaker 9: me that my time was up, and I turned away.
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  Speaker 9: One more thing, cried the prisoner. Is it still the
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  Speaker 9: case that the American people enjoy their freedom best when
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  Speaker 9: they are enslaved in some way? You are outrageous, I exclaimed.
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  Speaker 9: The American people are not enslaved in any way. It
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  Speaker 9: is true, they are restricted for their own good by
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  Speaker 9: those more capable of judging than they. That must always
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  Speaker 9: be the case. I don't know about musty side, but
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  Speaker 9: I am sure it will always be the case, as
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  Speaker 9: long as a man's idea of freedom is his ability
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  Speaker 9: to impose some slavish notion on his brother. Good Bye,
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  Speaker 9: I said, with a recurrence to my smirk of piricycle pity.
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  Speaker 9: I am sorry to see you here. Oh, don't be
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  Speaker 9: trouble on my account, he answered on the whole. I
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  Speaker 9: am satisfied. Satisfied impossible, I cried, why impossible? Consider that
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  Speaker 9: I shall never again be compelled to associate with the decent,
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  Speaker 9: honest folk. Oh, I have cause to be satisf I
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  Speaker 9: am here on a life sentence. End of section ten.
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  Speaker 9: Recording by Stephen Harvey.
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  Speaker 10: Section eleven of Mother Earth volume one, number two, April
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  Speaker 10: nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 10: Mother Earth, volume one, number two, April nineteen o six.
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  Speaker 10: Section eleven. The Old and the New Drama by Max Baginski.
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  Speaker 10: The inscription over the drama in olden times used to
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  Speaker 10: be man, look into this mirror of life. Your soul
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 10: will be gripped in its innermost depths. Anguish and dread
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 10: will take possession of you. In the face of this
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 10: rage of human desire and passion, Go ye a tone
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  Speaker 10: and make good. Even Scheller entertained this view when he
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 10: called the stage a moral institution. It was also from
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 10: the standpoint that the drama was expected to show the
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  Speaker 10: terrible consequences of uncontrolled human passion, and that these consequences
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  Speaker 10: should teach man to overcome himself. To conquer oneself is
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  Speaker 10: man's greatest triumph. This ascetic tendency, incidentally part of chastisement
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  Speaker 10: and acquired resignation, one can trace in every investigation of
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  Speaker 10: the value and meaning of the drama, though in different forms,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 10: the avenging nemesis, always at the heels of the sinner,
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  Speaker 10: may be placated by means of rigid self control and
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 10: self denial. This su was Schopenhauer's idea of the drama.
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  Speaker 10: In it his eye perceived with horror that human relation
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 10: became disastrously interwoven, that guilt and atonement made light of
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  Speaker 10: the human race, which merely served as a target for
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 10: the principles of good and evil. Guilt and atonement reign
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 10: because the blind force of life will not resign it,
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  Speaker 10: but on the contrary, is ever ready to yield itself
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  Speaker 10: to the struggle of the passions. Mountains of guilt pile
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 10: themselves on the top of each other, while purifying fires
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 10: ever flame up into the heavens. In the idea that
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 10: life in itself is a great guilt, Schopenhauer coincides with
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  Speaker 10: the teachings of Christ, though otherwise he has little regard
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  Speaker 10: for them. With Christ he recognized in the chastisement of
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  Speaker 10: the body, a purification of the mind, the inner man,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 10: who thus escapes from close physical intimacy as if from
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: bad company. The spiritual man appears before the physical as
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 10: a saint indapheresi. In reality, he is the intellectual case
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 10: of the so called bad deeds of the human body,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 10: its path, indicator and teacher. But once the mischief is accomplished,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 10: he puts on a pious air and denies all responsibility
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  Speaker 10: for the deed. Wherever the idea of guilt the fear
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  Speaker 10: of sin prevails, the mind becomes traitor to the body.
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  Speaker 10: I know him not and will have nothing to do
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  Speaker 10: with him. Whenever man entertains the belief in good and evil,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 10: he is bound to pretend the good and to do
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 10: the evil. And yet the understanding of all human occurrences begins,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 10: as with a Zarathustra philosopher, beyond good and evil. The
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  Speaker 10: modern drama is in its profoundest steps and attempts to
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 10: ignore good and evil in its analysis of human manifestations.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 10: It aims to get at a complete hole out of
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 10: each strong healthy emotion out of each absorbing mood that
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  Speaker 10: carries and urges one forward from the beginning to the end.
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  Speaker 10: It represents the world as it reflects itself in each passion,
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  Speaker 10: in each quivering life, not trying to confine and to judge,
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  Speaker 10: to condemn, or to praise, Not acting merely in the
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 10: capacity of a cold observer, but striving to grow in
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  Speaker 10: oneness with life, to become color, tone and light. To
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 10: absorb universal sorrow as one's own, universal joy as one's own,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 10: To feel every emotion as it manifests itself in a
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 10: natural way, to be oneself, yet oblivious of self. The
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  Speaker 10: modern dramatist tries to understand and to explain. Goodness is
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  Speaker 10: no longer entitled to a reward like a peopil who
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 10: knows his lesson, nor is evil condemned to an eternal hell.
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  Speaker 10: Both belong together in the sphere of all that is human.
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  Speaker 10: Often enough, it is seen that evil triumphs over good,
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  Speaker 10: while virtue, ever highly praised in words, is rarely practiced.
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  Speaker 10: It is set aside to become dusty and dirty in
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 10: some obscure corner. Only at some opportune moment is it
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  Speaker 10: brought forward from its hiding place to serve as a
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  Speaker 10: cover for some vile deed. We can no longer believe
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  Speaker 10: that beyond and above us there is some irrevocable, irresistible
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  Speaker 10: fate whose duty it is to punish all evil and
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 10: wrong into reward all goodness, an idea so fondly cherished
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 10: by our grandfathers. Today, we no longer look for the
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: force of fate outside of human activity. It lives and
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  Speaker 10: weaves its own tragedies and comedies with us and within us.
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  Speaker 10: It has its roots in our social, political, and economic surroundings,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 10: in our physical, mental, and psychic capacities. Did Not the
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  Speaker 10: fate of Cyrano de Brigerac lie in his gigantic nose
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  Speaker 10: with others, Fate lies in their vocation in life, in
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 10: their mental and emotional tendencies, which either submerge them into
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 10: the hurry and rush of a commonplace existence, or bring
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 10: them into the most annoying conflicts with the dicta of society. Indeed,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 10: it is often seen that a human being apparently of
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 10: a cheerful nature, but who has failed to establish a
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 10: durable relation with society, often leads to most tragic inner life.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 10: Should he find the cause in his own inclinations and
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 10: suffer agonizing reproaches therefrom he becomes a misanthrope if, however,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 10: he feels inwardly robust and powerful, living truly, if he
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 10: crave complete assertion of a self that is being hampered
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 10: by his surroundings at every step, he must never vi
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 10: become a revolutionist, and again his life may become tragic
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 10: in the struggle with our powerful institutions and traditions, the
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 10: leaden weight of which will apparently not let him soar
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 10: through space to ever greater heights. Apparently, because it sometimes
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 10: occurs that an individual rises above the average and waves
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 10: his colors over the heads of the common herd. His
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 10: life is that of the storm bird, anxiously making for
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 10: distant shores. The efforts of the deepest, truest and freest
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 10: spirits of our day tend toward the conscious formation of life,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 10: toward that life which will make the blind raging of
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 10: the elements impossible, a life which will show man his
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 10: sovereignty and admit his right to direct his own world.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 10: The old conception of the drama paid little or no
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 10: attention to the importance of the influences of social conditions.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 10: It was the individual alone who had to carry the
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 10: weight of all responsibility. But is not the tragedy greater
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 10: the suffering of the individual increased by influences. He cannot
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 10: control the existing social and moral conditions. And is it
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 10: not true that the very best and most beautiful in
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 10: the human breast cannot and will not bow down to
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 10: the commands of the commonplace and everyday conditions. Out of
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 10: the anachronisms of society and its relation to the individual growth,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 10: the strongest motives of the modern drama. Pure personal conflicts
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 10: are no longer considered important enough to bring about a
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 10: dramatic climax. A play must contain the beating of the waves,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 10: the deep breath of life and its strong, invigorating breeze
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 10: can never fail in bringing about a dramatic effect upon
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 10: our emotions. The new drama means reproduction of nature in
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 10: all its faces, the social and psychological included. It embraces, analyzes,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 10: and enriches all life. It goes hand in hand with
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 10: the longing for materially and mentally harmonious institutions. It rehabilitates
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 10: the human body, establishes it in its proper place and dignity,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 10: and brings about the long deferred reconciliation between the mind
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 10: and the body. Full of enthusiasm, with the pulse of
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 10: time throbbing in his veins, the modern dramatist compiles mountains
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  Speaker 10: of material for the better understanding of man and the
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 10: influences that mold inform him. He no longer presents capital acts,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 10: extraordinary events, or melodramatic expressions. It is life, in all
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 10: its complexity, that is being unfolded before us, and so
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 10: we come closer to the source of the forces that
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 10: destroy and build up again, the forces that make for
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 10: individual character and direct the world at large. Life as
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 10: a whole is being dealt with, and not mere particles.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 10: Formerly our eyes were dazzled by a display of costumes
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 10: and scenery, while the heart remained unmoved. This no longer satisfies.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 10: One must feel the warmth of life in order to respond,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 10: to be gripped. The sphere of the drama has widened
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 10: most marvelously in all directions, and only an where human
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 10: limitations begin. Together with this, a marked deepening of the
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 10: inner world has taken place. Still, there are those who
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 10: have much to say about the vulgarity contained in the
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 10: modern drama and how its inaugurators. In following present the
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 10: ugly and untruthful, untrue and ugly indeed for those who
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 10: are buried under a mass of inherited views and prejudices.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 10: The growth of the scope of the drama has increased
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 10: the number of the participants therein. Formerly it was assumed
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 10: that the fate of the ordinary man, the man of
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 10: the masses, was altogether too obscure, too indifferent, to serve
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 10: as material for anything tragic, since those who had never
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 10: dwelt in the heights of material splendor could not go
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 10: down to the darkest and lowest abyss. Because of that assumption,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 10: the low and humble never gained access to the center
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 10: of the stage. They were only utilized to represent mobs.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 10: Those that were of importance were persons of high position,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 10: in standing, persons who represented wealth and power with superiority
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 10: and dignity, yet with shallow and superficial airs. The ensemble
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 10: was but a mechanism and not an organism, and each
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 10: participant was stiff and lifeless. Each movement was forced and strained.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 10: The old fate and hero drama did not spring from
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 10: within man into the things about him. It was merely manufactured.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 10: Most remarkable incidents, unheard of situations had to be invented,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 10: if only to produce externally an appearance of coinciding cause
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 10: and effect, And not a single plot could be without
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 10: secret doors and vaults, terrible oaths and perjury. If Ibsen, Gorky, Hoptman,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 10: Gabrielle d'Al nunzio, and others had brought us nothing else
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 10: but a liberation from such grotesque ballasts, from such impossibilities
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 10: as destroy every allusion as to the life import of
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 10: a play, they would still be entitled to our gratitude
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 10: and the gratitude of posterity. But they have done more.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 10: Out of the confusion of trap doors, secret passages, folding screens,
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 10: they have led us into the light of day, of
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 10: undisguised events with their simple, distinct outlines. In this light,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 10: the man of the heap gains in life force, importance,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 10: and depths. The stage no longer offers a place for
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 10: impossible deeds. In the endless monologues of the hero, the
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 10: important feature is harmonious concert of action. The hero on
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 10: a stage that conscientiously stands for real art and aims
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 10: to produce life, is about as superfluous as the clown
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 10: who amused the audience between the acts. After all, the
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 10: spectacle of one's star display one cannot help but tail
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 10: the refreshing contrast shown in the Man of Destiny by
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 10: the clevered Bernard Shaw, where he presents the legend hero
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 10: Napoleon as a petty intriguer with all the interferer and
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 10: uneasiness of a plotter. In these days of concerted energy,
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 10: of the cooperation of numerous hands and brains, in the
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 10: days when the most far reaching effect can only be
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 10: accomplished through the summons of a manifold physical and mental endeavor,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 10: the existence of these loud hearth is circumscribed within rather
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 10: limited lines. Previous generations could never have grasped the deep
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 10: tragedy in that famous painting of Millet that inspired Edwin
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 10: Murk Him to write his Man with the Hoe. Our generation, however,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 10: is thrilled by it. And is there not something terribly
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 10: tragic about the lives of the great masses who pierced
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 10: the colossal stone cliffs of the Simpline, or who are
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 10: building the Panama Canal. They have and are performing a
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 10: task that may safely be compared with the extraordinary achievements
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 10: of Hercules, works which according to human conception, will last
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 10: into eternity. The names in the characters of these workmen
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 10: are unknown. The historians coldly and disinterestedly passed them by.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 10: The new drama has unveiled this kind of tragedy. It
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 10: has done away with the lie that sought to produce
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 10: a violent, dramatic effect through a plunge from the sublime
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 10: to the ridiculous. Those who understand Tolstoy's power of darkness,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 10: wherein but those of the lowest strata appear, will be
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 10: overwhelmed by the terrible tragedy in their lives, in comparison
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 10: with which the worries of some crowned head or the
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 10: money troubles of some powerful speculator will appear insignificant. Indeed,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 10: that which this master unfolds before us is no longer
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 10: a plunge from heaven to hell. The entire life of
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 10: these people is an inferno. The terrible darkness and ignorance
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 10: of these people, forced on them by the social misery
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 10: of a dull necessity, produces greater soul sensations in the
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 10: spectator than the stilted tragedy of a corneille. Those who
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 10: witness a performance of Gerhart Hoptmann's Hanel and fail to
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 10: be served by the grandeur and depth of that masterpiece,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 10: regardless of its petty, poorhouse atmosphere, deserve to see nothing
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 10: else than the Wizard of Oz And again, is not
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 10: the long, thunderous march of hungry strikers and Doulah's germinal
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 10: as awe inspiring to those who feel the heartbeat of
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 10: our age, even as the heroic deeds of Hannibal's warriors
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 10: were to his contemporaries. The world stage, ever, presents a
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 10: change of participants. The one who played the part of
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 10: leading man in one century may become a clown in another.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 10: Entire social classes and casts that formerly commanded first parts
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 10: are today utilized to make up stage decorations or as
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 10: figure on tees. Players representing the glory of knighthood or
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 10: minisingers would only amuse today, no matter how serious they
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 10: were attended to appear. Once anything lies buried under the
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 10: bulk of social changes, it can affect coming generations only
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 10: so far as the excavated skeleton affects the geologists. This
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 10: must be borne in mind by sincere stage art if
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 10: it is not to remain in the stifling atmosphere of tradition,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 10: if it does not wish to degrade a noble method
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 10: that helps to recognize and disclose all that is rich
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 10: and deep into human into a commonplace, hypocritical and stupid method.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 10: If the artist's creation is to have any effect, it
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 10: must contain elements of real life, and must turn its
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 10: gaze towards the dawn of the mourn of a more
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 10: beautiful and joyous war world, with a new and healthy
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 10: generation that feels deeply its relationship with all human beings
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 10: over the universe. In a report of the Russian government,
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 10: it is stated that the conduct of the soldiers and
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 10: the struggles of the streets was such that in no
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 10: instance did they transgress the limit which is prescribed to
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 10: them in their oath. As this is true, the soldier's
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 10: oath prescribes murder and cruelty as their patriotic duty. If
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 10: government were it, even an ideal revolutionary government, creates no
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 10: new force and is of no use whatever in the
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 10: work of demolition which we have to accomplish. Still less
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 10: can we count on it for the work of reorganization
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 10: which must follow that of demolition. The economic change which
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 10: will result from the social revolution will be so immense
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 10: and so profound. It must so change all the relations
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 10: based today on property in exchange, that it is impossible
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 10: for one or any individual to elaborate the different social
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 10: forms which must spring up in the society the future.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 10: This elaboration of new social forms can only be made
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 10: by the collective work of the masses. To satisfy the
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 10: immense variety of conditions and needs which will spring up
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 10: as soon as private property shall be abolished. It is
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 10: necessary to have the collective suppleness of mind of the
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 10: whole people. An the authority external to it will only
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 10: be an obstacle, only a trammel on the organic labor
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 10: which must be accomplished, and beside that a source of
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 10: discord and hatred. Crapotking. End of section eleven. Recording by Campbellshelp.
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  Speaker 6: Section twelve of Mother Earth Volume one, number two, April
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  Speaker 6: nineteen oh six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 6: Mother Earth, volume one, number two, April nineteen o six.
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  Speaker 6: Section twelve a sentimental journey police protection by Emma Goldman
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  Speaker 6: and Max Baginski. Chicago's pride are the stockyards, the Standard
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 6: Oil University, and Miss Jane Adams. It is therefore perfectly
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 6: natural that the sensibility of such a city would suffer
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 6: as soon as it became known that an obscure person
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 6: by the common name of V. G. Smith was none
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 6: other than the awful Emma Goldman, and that she had
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 6: not even presented herself to Mayor Dunn, the platonic lover
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 6: of municipal ownership. However, not much harm came of it.
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  Speaker 6: The Chicago newspapers, who cherished the truth like a costly jewel,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 6: made the discovery that the shrewd Miss Smith compromised the
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 6: number of Chicago's aristocracy and excellencies, among others, also a
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 6: Baron von Schlippenbach, consul of the Russian Empire. We consider
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 6: it our duty to defend this gentleman against such an
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 6: awful accusation. Miss Smith never visited the house of the Baron,
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 6: nor did she attend any of his banquets. We know
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 6: her well and feel confident that she never would put
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 6: her foot on the threshold of a representative of a
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 6: government that crushes every free breath, every free word that
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 6: sends her very best and noblest sons and daughters to prison,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 6: or the gallows, that has the children of the soil
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 6: the peasants publicly flogged, and that is responsible for the
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 6: barbarous slaughter of thousands of Jews. Miss Jane Adams too
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 6: is quite safe for Miss Smith. True, she invited her
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 6: to be present at a reception, but knowing the weak
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 6: knees of the soup kitchen philanthropy from past experience, Miss
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 6: Smith called her up on the phone and told her
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 6: that E. G. S was the dreaded Imma Goldman. It
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 6: must have been quite a shock to the lady. After all,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 6: one could not afford to hurt the sensibilities of society
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 6: so long as one has political and public aspirations. Miss E. G. Smith,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 6: being a strong believer in the prevention of cruelty, preferred
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 6: to leave the purity of the whole house untouched. After
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 6: her return to New York, E G. Smith sent Smith
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 6: about its business and started on a lecture tour in
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 6: her own right. As Emma Goldman Cleveland, Dear old friends
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 6: and co workers, the work you accomplished was splendid. Also,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 6: the comradely spirit of the young, But why spoil it
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: by bad example of applying for protection from the city authorities.
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  Speaker 6: It does not behoove us, who neither believe in their
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 6: right to prohibit free assembly nor to permit it, to
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 6: appeal to them. If the authorities choose to do either,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 6: they merely prove their autocracy. Those who love freedom must
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 6: understand that it is even more distasteful to speak under
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 6: police protection than it is to suffer under their persecution. However,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 6: the meetings were very encouraging, and the feeling of solidarity
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 6: sweet and refreshing. Buffalo, the shadow of September sixth still
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 6: haunts the police of that city. Their only vision of
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 6: an anarchist is one who is forever lying in wait
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 6: for human life, which is of course very stupid. But
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 6: stupidity and authority always joined forces. Captain Ward, who with
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 6: the squad of police came to save the innocent citizens
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 6: of Buffalo, asked if we knew the law, and was
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 6: quite surprised that that was not our trade, that we
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 6: had not been employed to disentangle the chaos of the law,
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 6: that it was his affair to know the law. However,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 6: the captain showed himself absolutely ignorant of the provisions of
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 6: the American Constitution. Of course, his superiors knew what they
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 6: were about when they set the Constitution aside as old
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 6: and antiquated, and instead enacted a law which gives the
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 6: average officer a right to invade the head and heart
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 6: of a man as to what he thinks and feels.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 6: Captain Ward added an amendment to the anti anarchist law.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 6: He declared any other language than English a felony, and
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 6: since Max Baginsky could only avail himself of the German language,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 6: he was not permitted to speak. How is that for
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 6: our law abiding citizens? A man is brutally prevented from
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 6: speaking because he does not know the refined English language.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 6: The police force and mcgoldman delivered her address in English.
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  Speaker 6: It is not likely that Captain Ward understood enough of
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 6: that language. However, the audience did, and if the police
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 6: of this country were not so bare faced, the Savior
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 6: of Buffalo would have wished himself anywhere rather than to
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 6: stand exposed as a clown before a large gathering of
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 6: men and women. The meeting the following evening was forcibly
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 6: dispersed before the speakers had arrived. Ignorance is always brutal
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 6: when it is backed by power. Toronto, King Edward Hotel,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 6: Queen of Victoria, manicuring parlor. It was only when we
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 6: read these signs that we realized that we were on
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 6: the soil of the British Empire. However, the monarchical authorities
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 6: of Canada were more hospitable and much freer than those
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 6: of our Free Republic. Not a sign of an officer
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 6: at any of the meetings. The city a gray sky
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 6: rain storms, although one was reminded of one of Hine's witty,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 6: drastic criticisms in reference to a well known German university town,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 6: Dogs on the street, hinrights implore strangers to kick them
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 6: so that they may have some change from the awful
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 6: monotony and dullness Rochester. The neighborly influence of the Buffalo
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 6: police seemed to have had a bad effect upon the
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 6: mental development of the Rochester authorities. The hall was packed
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 6: with officers at both meetings. The government of Rochester, however,
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 6: was not saved. The police kept themselves in good order.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 6: Some of them seemed to have benefited by the lectures.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 6: That accounts for the familiarity of one of Rochester's finest
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 6: who wanted to shake him a goldman's hand e. G.
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  Speaker 6: Had to decline, Baron von Schlippenbach or an American representative
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  Speaker 6: of law and disorder? Where is the difference? Syracuse, the
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 6: city where the trains run through the streets with Tolstoy,
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 6: one feels that civilization is a crime and a mistake.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 6: Where one sees nerve wrecking machines running through the streets,
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 6: poisoning the atmosphere with soft cold smoke. What anarchists within
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 6: the walls of Syracuse, Oh. The newspapers reported of special
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 6: session at city Hall how to meet the terrible calamity
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 6: Well Syracuse still stands on its old site. The second meeting,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 6: attended largely by genuine Americans brought by curiosity, perhaps was
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 6: very successful. We were assured that the lecture made a
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 6: splendid impression, which led us to think that we were
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 6: probably guilty of some foolishness. As the Greek philosopher, when
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 6: his lectures were applauded, were turned to his hearers and ask, gentlemen,
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 6: have I committed some folly? Ovoir e. G.
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  Speaker 1: And M.
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  Speaker 6: B end of Section twelve A sentimental journey Police Protection.
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  Speaker 11: Section thirteen of Mother Earth's Volume one, number two, April
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  Speaker 11: nineteen o six. This is a Librifox recording. All Librifox
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  Speaker 11: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  Speaker 11: number two, April nineteen o six. Section thirteen The Moral Demand,
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  Speaker 11: a comedy in one act by Otto Eric Hartleben, translated
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 11: from the German for Mother Earth.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 8: Cost Rita rivera concert singer, read by Alicia Messiah.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 12: Bertha read by Elsie Selwyn.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: Friedrich Steerwald, owner of a firm of C. W. Stirwald's
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: sons in Rudelstott read by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 11: Stage directions read by phone time. End of the nineteenth century.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 11: Place a large German fashionable bathing resort scene Freta's boudoir
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 11: small room, eloquantly furnished in Louis the sixteen style. In
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 11: the background a broad open door with draperies, which leads
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 11: into an anti chamber. To the right, a piano, in
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 11: front of which stands a large comfortable stool. Rita enters
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 11: the anti chamber, attired in an elaborate ball toilet. She
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 11: wears a gray silk cloak, a lace cicu and a parasol.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 11: Gaily tripping towards the front, she sings.
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  Speaker 8: Listen voye do plody solemiscopt missamie.
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  Speaker 11: She lays the parasol on the table and takes off
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 11: her long white gloves, all the while singing the melody.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 11: She interrupts herself and calls.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 8: Aloud, Berta, Berta, Oh but Alina, Oh but Alina.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 11: Bertha walks through the meadow, my lady, your pleasure. Rita
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 11: has taken off her cloak and stands in front of
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 11: the mirror. She is still humming the melody absent mindedly.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 11: Bertha takes all free test reps. Rita turns around merrily.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 8: Tell me, Bertha, why does not the electric bell ring?
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 8: I must always sing first, must always squander all my
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 8: flute notes first, air, I can entice you to come.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 8: Why do you suppose that cost?
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 9: With that?
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 8: I can immediately arrange another charity, matinee. Terrible thing, isn't it?
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 12: Yes, the man has not yet repared it?
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 8: Oh, bert delna, Why has the man not yet repared it?
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 12: Yes, the man intended to come early in the morning.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 8: The man has often wanted to do so. He does
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 8: not seem to possess a strong character. She points to
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 8: her cloak, dust it well before placing it in the wardrobe.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 8: The dust is simply terrible in this place, and this
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 8: they call a fresh air resort. Has anybody called.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 12: Yes, my lady, the count he has?
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 8: Well? Yes, I mean anyone else?
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 12: No, no one.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 8: Let me have my dressing gown.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 11: Bertha goes to the sleeping chamber to the left. Rita
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 11: steps in front of the mirror, singing softly.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 8: Listen, fier do peladie. How long did he wait?
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: What?
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 8: I would like to know? How long he waited?
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 12: An hour?
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 11: Rita to herself.
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 8: He does not love me anymore loudly, but during that
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 8: time he must have at least repaired the bell. He
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 8: is of no use whatever.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 12: The cow came directly from the matinee and asked me
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 12: where your ladyship had gone to dine. Naturally, I did
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 12: not know.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 8: Did he ask anything else?
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 12: Now? He looked at the photographs.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 8: Rita in the door well, And does he expect to
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 8: come again today?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, certainly at four o'clock.
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 11: Rita looks at the clock.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, but that's boring now it has already had past
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 8: three one cannot even drink coffee in peace, Harry, Bertha
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 8: prepare the coffee.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 11: Bertha leaves the room carrying the articles of attire. Rita,
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 11: after a pause, singing a melancholy melody Friedrich Steelod. A
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 11: man very carefully dressed in black, about thirty years of age,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 11: with a black crep around his stiff hat, enters from
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 11: the rear into the ante chamber, followed by Bertha.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 12: But the lady is not well.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: Please tell the lady that I am passing through here
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: and that I must speak with her about a very
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: pressing matter. It is absolutely necessary. Please.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 11: He gives her money and his card.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 12: Yes, I shall take your card, but I fear she
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 12: will not receive you.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: Why not? Oh yes, just go.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 12: This morning she sang at a charity matinee.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: And so I know, I know.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 11: Listen, Rita's singing has grown louder.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: Don't you hear how she sings? Oh?
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  Speaker 11: Do go, Bertha, shaking her head.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 12: Well, then wait a moment.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 11: She passes through the room to the half opened door
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 11: of the sleeping apartment. Knocks dear lady Rita from within.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 8: Well, what's the matter?
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 11: Bertha at the door.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 12: Oh, this gentleman here, he wishes to see you very much.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 12: Who is passing through here?
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 8: Come in?
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 11: Bertha disappears. Friedrich has walked up to the middle door,
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 11: where he remains standing.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 8: Well, who is it, Friedrich? Hmm, I shall come immediately.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 11: Bertha comes out and looks at Friedrich in surprise.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 12: My lady wishes you to await her.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 11: She walks away after having taken another glance at Friedrich.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 11: Frederick looks about, embarrassed and shyly. Rita enters, attired in
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 11: a tasteful dressing gown, but remains standing in the door.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 11: Friderich bows softly.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: Good day.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 11: Rita looks at him with an ironical smile and remains silent.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: Do you remember me? Don't you strange?
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 8: You come to see me? What has become of your
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 8: good training? Have you lost all sense of shame?
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 11: Friederike stretches out his hand as if imploring, Oh.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: I beg of you. I beg of you, not this tone.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: I really came to explain everything to you, everything, and
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: possibly to set things right.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 9: You with me.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 11: She shakes her head.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 8: Incredible, but please, since you are here, sit down with
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 8: what can you serve me?
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: Miss Hattenbach, I really should pardon.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 8: Me, my name is Rivera, Riada Rivera.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: I know you call yourself by that name now, but
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: you won't expect me, an old friend of your family,
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: to make use of this romantic, theatrical name for me.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: You are now, as heretofore, the daughter of the esteemed
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: house of Hattenbach, with which.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 8: I with which your father transacts business I.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: Know, with which I now am myself associated.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 8: Is it possible, and your father, if I.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: Had the slightest inkling of your address, yes, even your
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: present name, I should not have missed to announce to
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: you the sudden death of my.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 11: Father, Rita.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 8: After Pole's oh he is dead, I see you still
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 8: wear morning? How long ago is it?
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: Half a year? Since? Then? I am looking for you,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: and I hope you will not forbid me to address
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: you now as of your with that name which is
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: so highly esteemed in our native.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 11: City, Rita, smiling friendly.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 8: Your solemnity is delightful, golden, But sit down free.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 11: Drake remains standing. He is hurt.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: I must confessed, Miss Hattenbach, that I was not prepared
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: for such a reception from you. I hope that I
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: might expect, after these four or five years, that you
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: would receive me differently than with this, With this, how
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: shall I say toleration? No, with this arrogance?
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 11: How Friederich controlling himself?
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon. I am sorry to have said that.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 11: Richa. After a pause, hostile.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 8: You wish to be taken seriously?
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 11: She sits down with a gesture of the hand.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 8: Please. What have you to say to me?
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: Much? Oh? Very much?
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 11: He also sits down.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: But you are not well today?
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 8: Not well? What makes you say so?
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: Yes? The maid told me so?
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 8: The maid, she is a useful person. That makes me think.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 8: You certainly expect to stay here sometime? Do you not?
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: With your permission? I have much to tell you, I
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: thought so.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 8: Bertha, Bertha, do you suppose one could get an electric
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 8: bell repaired here? Impossible?
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 11: Bertha enters, my lady Bertha.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 8: When the count comes, now, I am really sick.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 11: Bertha nods very well.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 8: She leaves, and where is the coffee?
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 11: I shall famish Bertha outside.
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 13: Immediately the count did you say?
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 8: Yes? Quite a fine fellow. Otherwise but would not fit
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 8: in now? I wanted to say, I am passionately fond
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 8: of electric bells. You know they have a fabulous charm
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 8: for me. One only needs to touch them softly, ever
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 8: so softly, with the small finger, and still cause a
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 8: terrible noise. Fine, is it not you wanted to talk
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 8: about serious matters? It seems so to me.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, And I beg of you, miss Erna.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 8: Anna, Erna, Oh well, I.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: Beg of you be really and truly serious. Yes, listen
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: to what I have to say to you. Be assured
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: that it comes from an honest, warm heart. During the
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: years in which I have not seen you, I have
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: grown to be a serious man, perhaps too serious for
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: my age, but my feelings for you have remained young.
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: Are quite young, do you hear me, Erna?
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 11: Rita, leaning back in the rocking chair with a sigh.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 8: I hear.
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: And you know, Erna, how I have always loved you
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: from my earliest youth. Yes, even sooner than I myself suspected.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 11: You know that, Yes, Rita is silent and does not
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 11: look at him.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: When I was still a fully schoolboy, I already called
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: you my trothed, and I could not but think otherwise
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: than that I would someday call you my wife. You
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: certainly know that, don't you. Yes, I know it well.
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: Then you ought to be able to understand what dreadful
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: feelings overcame me when I discovered sooner than you or
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: the world, the affection of my father. For you, that was, no,
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: you cannot grasp it.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 11: Rachel looks at him searchingly.
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 8: Sooner than I in all the world, Oh, a great
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 8: deal sooner that was.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: That time was the beginning of the hardest, innermost struggles
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: for me. What was I to do? Ah, ah, miss Erna.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: We people are really yes, yes, we are dreadfully slow minded.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: How seldom one of us can really live as he
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: would like to do. We not always and forever consider
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: others and our surroundings. Must well, yes, we do so
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: at least and when it is our own father. For
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: look here, Erna. I never would have been able to
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: oppose my father. I was used, as you well know,
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: from childhood, to always look up to my father with
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: the greatest respect. He used to be severe, my father,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: proud and inaccessible. But if I may be permitted to
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: say so, he was an excellent man. Well, yes, indeed,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: you must remember that it was he alone who established
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: our business by means of his powerful energy and untiring diligence.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: Only now I myself have undertaken the management of the establishment.
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: I am able to see what an immense work he
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: has accomplished.
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 8: Yes, he was an able businessman.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: In every respect ability personified. And he had grown to
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: be fifty two years of age and was still still
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: how shall.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 8: I say still able?
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, I mean a vigorous man in his best cheers.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: For fifteen years he had been a widower. He had worked,
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: worked unceasingly, and then the house was well established. He
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: could think of placing some of the work upon younger shoulders.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: He could think of enjoying his life once more. That is,
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: and he thought he had found in you the one
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: who would bring back to him youth and the joy
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: of life.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 8: Yes, but then you ought to Oh, it is not
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 8: worth while.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: How I should have been man enough to say, no,
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: I forbid it. That is folly of age. I your son,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: forbid it. I demand her for myself. The young fortune
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: is meant for me, not for you. No, Erna, I
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: could not do that. I could not do that. No,
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: I the young clerk, with no future before me. No.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: My entire training and my conceptions urged me to consider
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: it my duty to simply stand aside and stifle my affection.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: As I did, as I already told you, even before
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: any other person had an idea of the intentions of
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: my father. I gradually grew away from you.
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 8: Gradually, yes, I recollect you. Suddenly became formal, indeed very nice.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: I thought.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 11: Versa comes with the coffee and serves, will you.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 8: Take a cup with me?
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: Friedric Thoughtlessly, I thought, oh, pardon me, I thank you.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 8: I hope it will not disturb you if I drink
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 8: my coffee while you continue please.
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: Embarrassed, I thought it a proper thing. I hoped that
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: my cold and distant attitude would check a possible existing
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: affection for me.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 8: Possible existing affection, Fie, Now you are beginning to lie.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 11: She jumps up and walks nervously through the room.
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 8: As though you had not positively.
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 11: Known that stepping in front of him.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 8: What did you take me for when I kissed you?
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 11: Friedrich, very much frightened, also rises.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: Oh Anna, I always.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 8: You were delightful, delightful, still the same dashful boy who
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 8: does not dare.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 11: She laughs and sits down again. Delightful Frederic, after a silence, hesitatingly.
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: Well, are you going to allow me to call you
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: Erna again? As of your as.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 11: Of your She's sallies then gaily.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 8: Ah, if you care to yes, may I?
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 8: Yes, Fritz, That's better, isn't it? It sounds more natural?
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 11: I Friedrich presses her hand and sighs.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: Yes. Really, you take a heavy load from me. Everything
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: that I want to say to you can be done
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: so much better in the familiar tone, Oh.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 8: Have you still so much to say to me?
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 12: Well?
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: But now tell me first? How was it possible for
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: you to undertake such a step? What prompted you to
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: leave so suddenly? Erna, Erna? How could you do that?
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 8: How I could? Can you ask me that? Do you
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 8: really not know it?
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do know it, But it takes so much to.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 8: Do that, not more than was in me.
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: One thing I must confess to you, Although it was
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: really bad of me, but I knew no way out
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: of it. I felt relieved after you had gone.
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 8: Well, then that was your heroism.
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: Do not misunderstand me. I knew my father had.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, but do not talk about it anymore.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: You are right, it was boyish of me. It did
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: not last long, and then I mourned for you, not
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: less than your parents. Oh, Erna, If you would see
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: your parents now, they have aged terribly. Your father has
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: lost his humor altogether and is giving full vent to
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: his old passion for red wine. Your mother is always ailing,
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: hardly ever leaves the house, and both, even though they
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: never lose a word about it, cannot reconcile themselves to
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: the thought that their only child left them.
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 11: Rita off to a pause, awakens from her meditation harshly.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 8: You were sent by my father? No, why then I
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 8: would show you the door, Erna, a man who ventured
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 8: to pay his debts with me?
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: How so what do you mean?
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, let's drop that times were bad? But today the
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 8: house of Hottenbach enjoys its good old standing, as you say,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 8: and has overcome the crisis. Then your father must have
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 8: had some consideration without me. Well then, and Rudolstott still
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 8: stands on the old spot. That's the main thing. But
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 8: now let us talk about something else. I beg of you.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: No, no, Erna, what you allude to that? Do you
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: really believe my father had Your.
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 8: Father had grown used to buy and attain everything in
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 8: life through money, why not buy me also? And he
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 8: had already received the promise, not from me but from
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 8: my father. But I am free, I ran away and
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 8: am my own mistress. A young girl, all alone, down
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 8: with the gang.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 11: Frederick is silent and holds his head. Rita steps up
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 11: to him and touches his shoulder in a friendly manner.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 8: Don't be sad. At that time your father was the stronger,
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 8: and life is not otherwise. After all, one must assert oneself.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: But he robbed you of your happiness.
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 8: Who knows it is just as well?
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: Is that possible? Do you call that happiness? This being alone?
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 8: Yes? That is my happiness, my freedom, and I love
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 8: it with jealousy, for I fought for it myself.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: A great happiness outside of family ties, outside the ranks
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: of respectable society.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 11: Rita laughs a load, but without bitterness.
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 8: Respectable society. Yes, I fled from that, thank heaven. But
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 8: if you do not come in the neighbor of my father,
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 8: what do you want here? Why do you come for
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 8: what purpose? What do you want of me? No?
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: You asked that in a strange manner.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 8: Well, yes, I have a suspicion that you begrudge me
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 8: my liberty. How did you find me anyway?
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was hard enough.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 8: Rita Rivera is not so unknown.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: Rita Rivera. Oh no, how often have I read that
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: name these last years? In the newspapers in Berlin, on
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: various placards and large letters. But how could I ever
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: have thought that you were meant by it?
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 8: Why did you not go to the winter garden when
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 8: you were in Berlin?
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: I never frequent such places.
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 8: Pardon me, oh, I always forget the old customs.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, please please, dear Irma, not in this tone of voice,
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: which tone, Erna, do not make matters so difficult for me. See,
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: after I had finally discovered through an agency in Berlin,
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: and after hunting a long time, that you were the
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: famous Rava, I was terribly shocked at first, terribly sad,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: and for a moment I thought of giving up everything.
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: My worst fears were over. I had the assurance that
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: you lived in good and, as I now see, in
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: comfortable circumstances. But on the other hand, I had to
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: be prepared that you might have grown as strange to
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: the world in which I lived, and that we could
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: hardly understand each other.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 8: Hmm, Shall I tell you what was your ideal? How
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 8: you would have like to find me again as a
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 8: poor seamstress in an attic room, who during the four
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 8: years had lived in hunger and need. But respectably, that
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 8: is the main point. Then you would have stretched forth
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 8: your kind arms, and the poor pale little dove would
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 8: have gratefully embraced you. Will you deny that you have
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 8: imagined it thus and even wished for it?
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 11: Friedrich looks at her calm.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: Movie, Well, is there anything wrong about it?
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 8: But how did it happen that, regardless of this, of
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 8: this disappointment, you nevertheless continue to search for me.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, at the right moment, I recollected your clear, silvery,
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: childlike laughter right in the midst of my pettiscruples that
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: resounded in my ears, as at the time when you
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: ridiculed my gravity. Do you still remember that time?
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 11: Erna Rita is silent. Bertha enters with an enormous bouquet
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 11: of dark red roses.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 12: My lady from the count.
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 11: Rita jumps up nervously excited.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 8: Roses, my dog roses. Give them to me.
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 11: She holds them toward Friedrich and asks.
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 8: Did he say anything?
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 11: No, said nothing, but Frideric shoves the bouquet, which she
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 11: holds up closely to his face aside, I thank you, Rita,
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 11: without noticing him to Bertha. Well, Bertha, pointing to the bouquet.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 12: The count has written something on the card, his card where.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 11: She searches among the flowers. Oh here, she reads, then
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 11: softly to Bertha it is all right. Bertha leaves. Rita
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 11: reads again poor Lec with an easy sigh.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, yes, what is the matter?
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 8: Sad? His education was hardly half finished, and he already
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 8: forsakes me.
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? I do not understand you at.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 11: All, Rita? Her mind is occupied too bad.
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 8: Now, who grow entirely stupid?
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 11: Friederich rises importantly.
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: Erna answer me? What relationship existed between you and the count?
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 11: Ha?
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 8: Ha ha? What business is that of yours?
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: Erna? Whatever it might have been, This will not do
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: any longer.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 8: No, no, you see it is already ended.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: No, Erna, that must all be ended. You must get
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: out of all this entirely and forever.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 11: Rita looks at him, surprised and inquiringly.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 8: Hmmm, strange person.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 11: Friedrich grows more eager and walks up and down in
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 11: the room.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: Such a life is immoral. You must recognize it. Yes,
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: and I forbid you to live on in this fashion.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: I have the right to demand it of you.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 8: Demand you demand something of me?
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, demand not for me? No, in the name
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: of morals. That which I ask of you is simply
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: a moral demand. Do you understand a moral demand which
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: must be expected of every woman?
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 8: Must? And why because?
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: Because? Because? Well, dear, because otherwise everything will stop?
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 8: What will stop life? No?
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: But morals?
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 8: Ah, I thank you. Now I understand you. One must
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 8: be moral, because otherwise morality will stop.
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: Why? Yes, that is very simple.
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 8: Yes? Now please, what would I have to do in
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 8: order to fulfill your demand? I'm curious like a child
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 8: now and shall listen obediately.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 11: She sits down again. Friederich also sits down and grasps
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 11: her hand warmly.
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: Well, you see, my dear Erna, everything can still be undone.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: In Rudelstadt. Everybody believes you are in England with relatives,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: even if you have never been there.
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 8: Often enough my best engagements.
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: Well, so much the better. Then you certainly speak English,
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: of course, and you are acquainted with English customs. Excellent, Oh, Erna,
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: your father will be pleased. He once confessed to me
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: when he had a little too much wine. You know him.
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: He grows sentimental.
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 11: Then, Rita to herself.
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 8: They are all that way. How oh, nothing, please continue?
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I could come back, certainly, fortunately during these last years,
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: since you have grown so famous. Nobody has I had.
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 8: Grown notorious only within a year.
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: Well, most likely nobody in Rudolstadt has ever seen you
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: on the boards. In one word, you.
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 8: Must return from England.
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, nothing lies in the way, and your mother will
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: be overjoyed. Nay, nay, how well that you have taken
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: a different name.
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 8: Ah, that is it. Yes, I believe that. Then they
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 8: know that I am Rita Rivera I wrote them.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: They will receive you with open arms. Erna, I beg
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: of you. I entreat you come with me. It is
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: still time today you cannot know. But anybody from Rudolstadt
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: who knows, might come to the theater and Rita.
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 8: Decidedly no one from Rudolstock will do that. They are
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 8: too well trained for that. You see it by your
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 8: own person. But go on, if I would care to,
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 8: if I really would return, what then.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: Then well, then you would be in the midst of
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: the family and society again. And then and then then,
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: after some time has elapsed and you feel at home,
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: and when all is forgotten, as though nothing had ever happened, but.
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 8: A great deal has happened.
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: Erna, You must not take me for such a philistine
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: that I would mind that. At heart, I am unprejudiced. No, really,
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: I know my own fault and I know life, I
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: know very well. And I cannot ask it of you
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: that you in a career like yours. You hum well,
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: that you should have remained entirely faultless. And I do
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: not ask it of you either.
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 8: You do well at that.
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, whatever has happened within these four years lies
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: beyond us. Does not concern me, but shall not concern
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: you any longer either. Rita Revera has ceased to be
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: Erna Hattenbach returns to her family.
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 8: Lovely, very lovely. But then what then? Shall I start
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 8: a cooking school?
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: But Erna, don't you understand me? Could you think of
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: anything else?
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 8: Then?
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: Of course I shall marry you.
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 9: Then.
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 11: Richel looks at him puzzled, But.
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: That is self evident. Why should I have looked you up? Otherwise?
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: Why should I be here? But dear Erna, don't look
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: so stunned.
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 11: Rita still stares at.
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 8: Him, Simply marry strange.
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 11: She turns around towards the open piano plays and sings softly.
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 8: Fablon fau la faoulette.
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 11: Friederic has risen.
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: Erna, do not torment me.
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 8: Torment No, that would not be right. You are a
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 8: good fellow. Give me kiss.
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 11: She rises. Friederich embraces and kisses.
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: Her my Erna. Oh you have grown so much prettier,
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: so much prettier.
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 11: Rita leans her head on his shoulder.
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: But now come, let us not lose one moment.
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 11: Rita does not move.
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: If possible, let everything be come.
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 11: He pushes her with gentle force.
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: You cry.
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 11: Rita hastily wipes the tears from her eyes, controls herself.
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 8: Oh nonsense, Rita. Rivera does not cry. She laughs.
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: Erna, do not use that name. I do not care
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: to hear it again.
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 8: Oh, you do not want to hear it anymore. You
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 8: would like to command me. You come here and assume
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 8: that that which life in hard times had made of
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 8: me you can wipe out in a half hour. No,
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 8: you do not know life and know nothing of me.
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  Speaker 8: My name is Rivera, and I shall not marry a
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  Speaker 8: merchant from Rudolstock.
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  Speaker 1: How is that you still hesitate?
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  Speaker 8: Do I look as though I hesitated?
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  Speaker 11: She steps up closer to him.
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  Speaker 8: Do you know Fred that during the years after my
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 8: escape I often went hungry brutally hungry. Do you know
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 8: that I ran about in the most frightful dives with
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 8: rattling plate, collecting pennies and insults. Do you know what
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 8: it means to humiliate oneself for dry bread? You see?
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  Speaker 8: That has been my school. Do you understand that I
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 8: had to become an entirely different person? Or go to ruin, one.
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  Speaker 13: Who owes everything to himself, who was proud of himself,
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  Speaker 13: but who no longer respects anything above all, no conventional
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  Speaker 13: measures and weights.
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  Speaker 8: And do you understand, Fred, that it would be base
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  Speaker 8: on my part were I to fallow you to the.
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  Speaker 11: Philistine Friedrich after a pause.
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  Speaker 1: Sadly, no, I do not understand that.
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  Speaker 3: Richa again, gaily I thought, so shall I dread there
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  Speaker 3: every suspicion and tremble before every fool, whereas I can
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  Speaker 3: breathe free air, enjoy sunshine and the best conscience.
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 8: You know that pretty part in the Waker, She sings,
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 8: greet Rutlestop for me, Greet my father and mother and
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 8: all the heroes. I shall not follow you to them, now,
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  Speaker 8: you know.
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  Speaker 11: She sits down at the piano again, Friedrich after silence.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you have lived through hard times, that still
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  Speaker 1: does not give you the right to disregard the duties
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  Speaker 1: of morals and customs.
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  Speaker 11: Richa plays and sings Phara lah phara lah farulette.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: I cannot understand how you can refuse me when I
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: offer you the opportunity of returning to ordered circumstances.
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 8: I do not love the ordered circumstances. On the contrary,
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 8: I must have something to train.
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  Speaker 1: And I I shall never be anything to you any more.
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: You thrust me also aside in your stubbornness.
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  Speaker 8: But not at all.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: Why, how so did you not state just now that
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: you would never marry a merchant from Rudolstadt.
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 8: Certainly do you see?
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: You cannot be so cold and heartless towards me? Why
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: did you kiss me before? I know you also yearn
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: in your innermost heart for those times in which we
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: secretly saw and found each other. You also, and even
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: if you denied, I felt it before you cried, Erna,
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: come along, come along with me, Come become my dear wife.
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 11: Freta looks at him quietly.
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  Speaker 8: No, I shall not do such a.
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 11: Thing, Friedrich starts nervously. After a pause.
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  Speaker 1: Erna, is that your last word?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Consider well what you say.
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  Speaker 8: I know what I am about, Erna, you want, do
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 8: wemain what you are? Yes, that's just what I want.
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  Speaker 11: Friedrich remains for some time, struggling, then grasps his.
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  Speaker 1: Hat, then adieu.
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  Speaker 11: He hurry starts the left into the bedroom. Rita calls, smiling, halt,
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  Speaker 11: not there. Friedrich returns, confused, pardon me, I.
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  Speaker 8: Poor Fred, did you stray into my bedroom? There is
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 8: the door, long pause.
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  Speaker 11: Several times he tries to speak. She laughs gently. Then
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 11: she sings and plays the song from mamselle.
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  Speaker 8: Nitouche I mean we are play lafette remne babette a
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 8: cadet Christi la NUIs a complete farnu de peche babette,
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 8: daj dan profite grows bet fabolon, faro la faraulette, Jay
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 8: droopet ds cadet jay Papa dz babette, Lalarette, Larry, Lalarette, Larry.
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  Speaker 11: Friederich at first listens against his will, even makes a
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 11: step towards the door. By and by, he becomes fascinated
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 11: and finally is charmed. When she finishes, he puts his
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 11: stiff hat on the table and walks towards her with
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 11: a blissful smile.
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 8: Now you even smile. Did I impress you?
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  Speaker 11: Frederic drops down on his knees in front of her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Erna, you are the most charming woman on earth.
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  Speaker 11: He kisses her hands wildly. Rita stoops down to him
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  Speaker 11: softly and merrily.
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  Speaker 8: Why run away? Why if you still love me? Can
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 8: you run off? You mule?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll remain. I remain with you.
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  Speaker 8: It was well that you missed the door, oh Erna.
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 8: But now you call me Rita? Do you understand? Well?
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 8: Are you going to are you going to be good?
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  Speaker 1: Rita? Rita? Everything you wish.
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  Speaker 8: Everything I wish. She kisses him, and now tell me
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  Speaker 8: about your moral demand. Yes, you are delightful when you
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 8: talk about it, So delightful.
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  Speaker 11: End of Amoral Demand. End of Mother Earth, Volume one,
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  Speaker 11: number two, April nineteen o six.