Remarks And Notes. Some Remarks On The Early : p. 151 REMARKS AND NOTES p. 153 SOME REMARKS ON THE EARLY STAR AND SEX WORSHIPS THERE seems to be a certain propriety in the fact that two of the oldest and most universal cults have been the worship of the stars on the one hand, and of the emblems of sex on the other. The stars, the most abstract...
Woman, In Freedom : p. 53 WOMAN IN FREEDOM IT is clear enough, from what has been said, that what Woman most needs to-day, and is mostly seeking for, is a basis of independence for her life. Nor is her position likely to be improved until she is able to face man on an equality; to find, self-balanced, her natural...
Remarks And Notes. On Preventive Checks : p. 171 ON PREVENTIVE CHECKS TO POPULATION This is no doubt a complex and difficult subject. Nature from far back time has provided in the most determined and obstinate way for the perpetuation of organic life, and has endowed animals, and even plants, with a strong sexual instinct. By natural...
Appendix. Works : p. 191 Works by the same Author: * TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: complete Poems. Library Edition, cloth, gilt edge, 506 pp., 3/6 net. THE SAME. Pocket Edition, India paper, with limp binding and gilt edge, 3/6 net. ENGLAND'S IDEAL and other Papers on Social Subjects. Fourth Edition, 19o2, pp. 176, cloth...
Remarks And Notes. On The Family : p. 168 ON THE FAMILY A CHANGE somewhat similar to that in the position of jealousy has taken place in the rle of the Family during the progress of society into and through the period of civilisation. In the primitive human association the Family was large in extent, and in outline vague;...
Remarks And Notes. Note On The Primitive : p. 161 NOTE ON THE PRIMITIVE GROUP-MARRIAGE ONE of the early forms of union among human beings appears to have been that of the "Group-marriage", which was an alliance between a group of men and a group of women. It had various forms, but rested in general on the fact that the women in primitive...
Untitled : LOVE'S COMING-OF-AGE BY EDWARD CARPENTER [1906] This short book of essays by Edward Carpenter is a look at gender roles at the start of the 20th century, and his prescient vision of how those roles might evolve. In the past century many of his then-utopian predictions have come to pass, such...
The Free Society : p. 135 THE FREE SOCIETY TAKING, finally, a somewhat wider outlook over the whole subject of the most intimate human relations than was feasible in the foregoing chapters, we may make a few general remarks. One of the great difficulties in the way of arriving at any general understanding...
Title Page : LOVE'S COMING-OF-AGE A SERIES OF PAPERS ON THE RELATIONS OF THE SEXES BY EDWARD CARPENTER LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & Co. LTD., HIGH STREET, BLOOMSBURY MANCHESTER: S. CLARKE, V GRANBY ROW FIFTH EDITION (Enlarged) [1906] Scanned , June 2004. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public...
Woman, The Serf : p. 35 WOMAN THE SERF A HALF-GROWN man is of course a tyrant. And so it has come about that the rule of Man in the world has for many ages meant the serfdom of Woman. Far back in History, at a time when in the early societies the thought of inequality had hardly arisen, it would appear th...
Marriage, A Forecast : p. 91 MARRIAGE A FORECAST IN answer to the last question it is not improbable that the casual reader might suppose the writer of these pages to be in favor of a general and indiscriminate loosening of all ties--for indeed it is always easy to draw a large inference even from the simplest...
The Sex Passion : p. 1 THE SEX-PASSION THE subject of Sex is difficult to deal with. There is no doubt a natural reticence 1 connected with it. There is also a great deal of prudery. The passion occupies, without being spoken of, a large part of human thought; and words on the subject being so few and inadequate...
Man, The Ungrown : p. 25 MAN THE UNGROWN MAN, the ordinary human male, is a curious animal. While mastering the world with his pluck, skill, enterprise, he is in matters of Love for the most part a child. The passion plays havoc with him; nor does he ride the Lion, as Ariadne is fabled to have done. In this he...
Dedication : ["The little god of Love is general represented as a child; and rightly perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among the human race. There are signs however of a new order in the relations of the Sexes; and the following tapers are, among other things, an attempt to indicate...
Marriage, A Retrospect : p. 72 MARRIAGE A RETROSPECT OF the great mystery of human Love, and that most intimate personal relation of two souls to each other--perhaps the firmest, most basic and indissoluble fact (after our own existence) that we know; of that strange sense--often, perhaps generally, instantaneous--of long...
Remarks And Notes. On Jealousy : p. 165 ON JEALOUSY A GREAT disturber of the celestial order of Love is jealousy-that brand of physical passion which carried over into the emotional regions of the mind will sometimes rage there like a burning fire. One may distinguish two kinds of jealousy, a natural and an artificial. The first...
The Intermediate Sex : p. 114 THE INTERMEDIATE SEX 1 114 IN late years (and since the arrival of the New Woman amongst us) many things in the relation of men and women to each other have altered, or et any rate become clearer. The growing sense of equality in habits and customs--university studies, art, music, politics...
