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| THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM BY E. BELFORT BAX ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| E. Belfort Bax |
| 1854 – 1925 |
EARLY LIFE.
Ernest Belfort Bax was born on July 23rd, 1854, in Leamington, of old-fashioned
Nonconformist parents. In his Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian, he
describes the narrow Evangelicanism and Sabbatarianism in which he was brought up, and
which, he says, “left an enduringly unpleasant reminiscence behind it,” though he also says that
theology never affected him very deeply. “I believed in it, of course, in a way, knowing nothing
else, and hence it being the only theory of the universe available for my young intelligence.
What interested me more than any maunderings anent the individual soul, being ‘born again’
and the like, was when my old governess, who took a truly maternal interest in me, used to talk
to me about Daniel’s image and its four monarchies. This gave me, in its way and within the
limits of the current orthodox creed, a theory of history, such as it was, and I have always felt
the need of an intelligible doctrine of history.” Bax adds that, though little affected by Christian
dogma, he believed thoroughly as a child in the supernatural, and was dissatisfied with the
assurances of his elders that assurances of his elders that miracles, though they had
happened at the beginning of the Christian era, did not happen now.
Bax was privately educated, and come early under the influence of such writers as Lewes,
Lecky, Bain, Spencer and Mill, which doubtless had the effect of reducing his supernaturalist
leanings to a minimum. Certainly he was for the remainder of his life a robust and aggressive
Rationalist. If his early bias in the other direction can be said to have left any trace, it is, in a
curious belief, which he retained to the end of his days, in the workings in human affairs of an
unaccountable and malicious element of luck or chance. Watertight against God, angel or
devil, his Rationalism was never quite proof against a “Poltergeist.”
Bax’s interest in public affairs was awakened at the age of sixteen by the Franco-German
War, and more particularly by its sequel, the Commune. His political ideas at this time
amounted only to a commonplace Radicalism combined with vague aspirations to economic
equality; but he became fired with sympathy for the working-class rising in Paris, and wept
bitter tears over its suppression by the troops of Thiers and MacMahon. “Henceforward I
became convinced that the highest and indeed only true religion for human beings was that
which had for its object the devotion to the future social life of Humanity. The martyrs of the
Commune who died, as one of them expressed it, pour la solidarité humaine, appealed to me
as far nobler than any martyrs the Christian creed has had to show. The Communist believed
that his end at the hands of the Versaillais soldiery meant the extinction of his personality, but
perhaps a step towards the realisation of his ideal, and in this belief he faced death. The
Christian martyr, on the other hand, we may presume, was sincerely convinced according to
the tenets of his creed that his death at the hands of the executioner opened for his personality
the gates of a paradise of never-ending bliss.”
Bax later frequented the meetings of the Positivist Society, but never actually joined it. In 1875
he went to Germany to study music; and visited that country again in 1880 as Berlin
correspondent of the Standard. This brought him into contact with Eduard von Hartmann, and
with German philosophy in general. Henceforward Mill, Spencer and Bain yielded place to
Kant and Hegel. After his return to England, Bax became associated from 1882 onwards with
Hyndman and William Morris in the Socialist Movement; at first as a member of the
Democratic (soon to become the Social-Democratic) Federation. After the breach between
Morris and Hyndman in 1884 on a question of tactics, Bax worked for a period with Morris in
the Socialist League, but returned to the Social-Democratic Federation in 1888, and never left
it again. From this period to his death the history of Bax’s life is mainly the history of his work
as a philosopher, historian and publicist.
| THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM BY E. BELFORT BAX AUTHOR OF "MARAT: THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND," "PROBLEMS OF MAN, MIND AND MORALS," ETC. LONDON GRANT RICHARDS LTD. MDCCCCXIII PRINTED BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED EDINBURGH CONTENTS |
PREFACE . . . . . . . .
INTRODUCTION . . . . . .
CHAPTER
I. HISTORICAL . . . . . .
II. THE MAIN DOGMA OF MODERN FEMINISM
III. THE ANTI-MAN CRUSADE . . . .
IV. ALWAYS THE "INJURED INNOCENT"
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V. THE "CHIVALRY " FAKE . . . .
VI. SOME FEMINIST LIES AND FALLACIES .
VII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MOVEMENT .
VIII. THE INDICTMENT . . . . .
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