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478 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
likely is she to have a genuine passion, r r to follow its
dictates. Yet the " moral" world curses and crushes
her for this—when, if she had destroyed herself by
solitary vice, and then refrained from what she had
made herself incapable of enjoying, the world would
have praised her as a model of chastity. I feel bound
in honor to say, that, so far as my observation extends,
the women most likely to outrage society, in love rela
tions, are the truest, the noblest, the greatest, and those
we should most delight to honor.
Solidarity.—That there is a pervading spirit, or
soul, which connects and harmonizes the feelings and
—
emotions of masses of people as in a individual—
single
is shown by a vast number of observations*. We have
it in the combined enthusiasm, or esprit du corps, of
fire-companies, military companies, armies, mobs, public
meetings, camp-meetings. It is shown in simultaneous
acts of courage and devotion; in panics, and among
animals, in stampedes; in political excitements; in out
rages ; in rebellions and revolutions. It is the basis of
what is called public sentiment and popular excitement.
All these things exist, and have some cause. If I have
not hit upon the true one, let our philosophers explain
them. Man is an individual ; but he is as much a part
of a human society, people, nation, and race, as one of
his organs is a part of his body. " We are all members,
one of anothor."