The Blight of Respectability An Anatomy of the Disease And a Theory of Curativ
The Blight of Respectability An Anatomy of the Disease And a Theory of Curativ
Walter M Walter Matthew Gallichan
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"You wish to be like the Master, and you pay your female assistants eight or ten shillings a week, and expect them to live on that miserable sum ! Don't insult Christ ! Don't cant and pre- tend that you wish to be a penniless socialist, and go about trying to do good. You \ " And, with these words, the Man of Feeling arose, and left that Respectable house, shaking its dust from his feet, and panting to breathe once more a pure and bracing air among the non-Respectables, to whom, by moral convic...tion, he rightly belonged. Ah ! " the mud-hearted Bourgeois ! " I don't wonder that another Man of Feeling, poor, sensitive, pitying, indignant Francis Adams, called you by that title ! Can you by any human power be dragged out of the slime in which you love to wallow f 56 The Blight of Respectability. Yet these are the censors of genius, the found- ers of public taste, the friends of religion, the con- servers of morality, forsooth! Every little shallow, mean-souled Respectable thinks himself capable of deciding that Shelley and Burns were " immoral ; " that this or that work of genius is " injurious to morals ; " that one brilliant man is morally incapacitated from assisting in legisla- tion, and that another ought to be imprisoned for the expression of heterodox religious or political opinions.
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