Post-Prandial Philosophy

25. A Point of Criticism

A few pages back, I ventured to remark that in Utopia or the Millennium

the women of the community would probably be supported in common by the

labour of the men, and so be secured complete independence of choice and

action. When these essays first appeared in a daily newspaper, a Leader

among Women wrote to me in reply, "What a paradise you open up to us!

Alas for the reality! The question is--could women ever be really

independent if men supplied the means of existence? They would always

feel they had the right to control us. The difference of the position of

a woman in marriage when she has got a little fortune of her own is

something miraculous. Men adore money, and the possession of it inspires

them with an involuntary respect for the happy possessor."

Now I got a great man