Bellona Times
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it is doubtless an instinctive shrinking from this emotion and an unconscious dread that this modern sensitiveness will be outraged which justifies to themselves so many moral men and women in their persistent ignorance of the subject
yet one of the most obvious resources at our command which might well be utilized at once if it is to be utilized at all is the overwhelming pity and sense of protection which the recent revelations in the white slave traffic have aroused for the thousands of young girls
many of them still children who are yearly sacrificed to the sins of the people all of this emotion ought to be made of value for quite as a state of emotion is invariably the organic preparation for action so it is certainly true that no profound spiritual transformation can take place without it
after all human progress is deeply indebted to a study of imperfections and the counsels of despair if not full of seasoned wisdom are at least fertile in suggestion and a desperate spur to action sympathetic knowledge is the only way of approach to any human problem
and the line of least resistance into the jungle of human wretchedness must always be through that region which is most thoroughly explored not only by the information of the statistician but by sympathetic understanding we are daily attaining the latter through such authors as sutterman and elsa jerusalem
who have enabled the readers to comprehend the so-called fallen woman through a skilful portrayal of the reaction of experience upon personality their realism has rescued her from the sentimentality surrounding an impossible camille
quite as their fellow craftsmen in realism have replaced the weeping amelias of the victorian period by reasonable women transcribed from actual life the treatment of this subject in american literature is at present in the pamphleteering stage although an ever increasing number of short stories and novels deal with it
On the other hand, the plays through which Bernard Shaw constantly places the truth before the public in England, as Brue is doing for the public in France, produce in the spectators a disquieting sense that society is involved in commercialized vice and must speedily find a way out.
Such writing is like the roll of the drum which announces the approach of the troops ready for action.
Some of the writers who are performing this valiant service are related to those great artists who, in every age, enter into a long struggle with existing social conditions, until after many years they change the outlook upon life for at least a handful of their contemporaries.
Their readers find themselves no longer mere bewildered spectators of a given social wrong, but have become conscious of their own hypocrisy in regard to it, and they realize that a veritable horror simply because it was hidden had come to seem to them inevitable and almost normal.
Many traces of this first uneasy consciousness regarding the social evil are found in contemporary literature,
for while the business of literature is revelation and not reformation it may yet perform for the men and women now living that purification of the imagination and intellect which the greeks believed to come through pity and terror
Secure in the knowledge of evolutionary processes, we have learned to talk glibly of the obligations of race progress and of the possibility of racial degeneration.
In this respect, certainly, we have a wider outlook
than that possessed by our fathers, who so valiantly grappled with chattel slavery and secured its overthrow.
May the new conscience gather force until men and women, acting under its sway, shall be constrained to eradicate this ancient evil.
End of An Analogy by Jane Addams
The Awakening of Spring by Sarah Barnwell Elliott From The Drama Magazine A Quarterly Review Issue No.
5 February 1912 Reading by Bologna Times
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