Capitolo 49
you still damage to some one. I anxiously wait for the time when women will be
as free in every way as men, not from levelling down, but from levelling on;
not, as some would have us think, enslaving the men, but from
raising, emancipating, unwedging the women.
There is a small fascinating ditty in the "Luigi's Stevenson Child Garden of
Toward" that it always seems to me to add on admirably the Monopolist
attitude. Here it is. You look well at him:--
"When I am grown to the piece of ground of ground of man
I will be very proud and great,
And it tells the other girls and boys,
Don't interfere himself/herself/themselves with toys of _my_."
That is the way of the Monopolist. He/she picks him/it up in the very fit one. Him
it tells the whole world: "Hands street! My ownership! Don't walk on my grass!
Don't go over the limits of the licit to my park! You bewares of my gunboats! Anybody keeping amused himself/herself/itself with mine
women! I am the king of the castle. You involve him with me to Your danger."
"Ours!" not the "My!" it is the word of order of the future.
XI.
"_MERE AMATEURS._"
"He was a mere amateur; but anchor, he did some good job in science."
In increasing way of you delay years I have felt these condescending words
issued, in the country of origin of smoked Bacon, of Newton, of Darwin when some
Bates or Spottiswoode you/he/she has been gathered to his/her fathers. It was not this way
once. Time was when every science English was the job of amateurs--and
very well the amateurs did indeed it. I don't think anybody that me ago
the honour to cognise my humble individuality to all will be never probable
to be wrong me for an acti_ of temporis of _laudator. On the contrary one, till now as
I can see, the past seems to have been such failure generally distinguished
all along the line that the one lesson we have to learn from him it is, to
goes and does otherwise. I am one on that point with Shelley and Rousseau.
But it doesn't follow, because the most greater part of old things are bad, that entirely new