Arena magazine - Volume 04 . en humanity has grown sufficiently wise toreason broadly and view problems on their own merits,aside from preconceived opinion or inherited prejudice,real instead of false standards of morality will prevail,and we shall cease to condemn anything as pernicioussimply because it is unusual, radically unlike that towhich we have been accustomed or revolutionary in itstendency. Let me make this if possible more apparent by anillustration, because it bears suchrelation to the main issue. Ifages worn long flowing robes, com-oping their bodies, but on acertain day with one
Arena magazine - Volume 04 . en humanity has grown sufficiently wise toreason broadly and view problems on their own merits,aside from preconceived opinion or inherited prejudice,real instead of false standards of morality will prevail,and we shall cease to condemn anything as pernicioussimply because it is unusual, radically unlike that towhich we have been accustomed or revolutionary in itstendency. Let me make this if possible more apparent by anillustration, because it bears suchrelation to the main issue. Ifages worn long flowing robes, com-oping their bodies, but on acertain day with one accordexchanged them for a cos-tum3 similar to that nowseen throughout the civil-ized world, society wouldexperience a distinctshock; immoral, indecent,pernicious, and vulgarwould mildly express thesentiment of conventionalthought, until the samesociety had become ac-customed to the us at the present timeit is difficult to conceivehow women of sense andrefinement submitted to an important men bad forpletely envel-. Digitized by VjOOQIC
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