Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906

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Various. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906

TIDINGS OF MAY

ENVY

OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS

"THIS MAN GORKY."

COMRADE

ALEXANDER BERKMAN

UT SEMENTEM FECERIS, ITA METES

THE WHITE TERROR

I.—The Flogging of a Student

II.—Lieutenant Schmidt, of the Sevastopol Mutiny, after being captured

PATERNALISTIC GOVERNMENT

LIBERTY IN COMMON LIFE

STATISTICS

GERHART HAUPTMANN WITH THE WEAVERS OF SILESIA

DISAPPOINTED ECONOMISTS

VITAL ART

KRISTOFER HANSTEEN

FIFTY YEARS OF BAD LUCK

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A young man had an Ideal which he cherished as the most beautiful and greatest treasure he had on earth. He promised himself never to part with it, come what might.

His surroundings, however, repeated from morn till night that one can not feed on Ideals, and that one must become practical if he wishes to get on in life.

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"Well, anyhow," I insisted, for I can be obstinate when a thing isn't clear to me, "if they both thought they were justified in calling themselves man and wife, and if the people in Russia thought so, too, why should we make any fuss about it?"

"Pardon me, Mrs. Grant," said Mrs. Blanderocks, suavely, "if I say that your words are very silly. In the first place, the Russians are barbarians, as we all know; and, in the next place, the law is the law, and the law says that a man may not have two wives. A man who does is a bigamist. A man who has a wife and yet lives with another woman is an adulterer. Pardon me for using such a word, but it was forced from me. Now, this man Gorky, who may be a very great genius for all I know—I never read any of his stuff—but he isn't above the law: not above the moral law anyhow, and the moral law is the same all over the world. He says he and his wife parted because they were unhappy together, which is a very flimsy excuse for immorality. Then he says that his wife is living now with a man she loves and is happy with."

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