The cultivation of man, according to the teachings of common-sense : being a treatise on the application to man of the laws that he applies to all other creatures / by Charles A. Witchell.

  • Witchell, Charles A., -1907.
Date:
1904
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Credit: The cultivation of man, according to the teachings of common-sense : being a treatise on the application to man of the laws that he applies to all other creatures / by Charles A. Witchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in area so as not to intrude on the necessities of the State. And the necessities of the State are generally those of the individual. The necessities of the private citizen must be gauged by what he absolutely demands now, and will have at any cost. They are obvious as the enjoyment of food, clothing, some education in the best thoughts of great men, and the comfort of the society of the opposite sex. The family, with its exclusiveness and consequent bickering and misery, with its petty tyrannies and often ruinous narrowness of social view, is not an institution worth preserving in its present environment, each boxed in its own cage, like troups of beasts at a show ,* with its own particular set of apartments and offices, its separate accounts and bills, its individual sweating cooks, and housemaids clinking hardware. The ants know better than this. It is the last relic of the ancient tyranny of the owner of a wife or wives, the petty kingdom where the ruler assembled his beasts of burden around him, and meted out death to the little slaves who dared to disobey. He fortified his castle, hid himself from the view of other tyrants, and anticipated the idea of “ splendid ” isolation. The back of slavery has been bent; but it will never be broken while the rich, hedging themselves into impenetrable seclusion, drive the poor from want to want, till all sense of privacy is by force taken from them, and they are huddled together worse than pigs in a sty. For the ultra-refinement of one family, with all its listless joys, is bought with a price of what we call the bestiality of another. Here we find the clear and naked necessity for the rule of love instead of hate and selfishness. How much of love is there in the high-walled gardening