I received recently a copy of The Whim containing some strictures upon the use of the word "regeneration," in one of my articles, as applied to the invigorating and developing effects of militancy in the history of human societies.
Politeness survives longest and develops most elaborately under militant conditions, and diminishes in exact proportion as militancy decreases.
In 1910, when English militancy was at its height, Mrs. Belmont gave out an interview in London, in which she predicted that English women would have the suffrage before us.
The campaign became a very hot one during which most of the militancy seemed to be on the side of the political leaders.
Still unwilling to believe that we would be forced to resume our militancy we attempted to talk to the President again A special deputation of women munition workers was sent to him under our auspices.
Part III Militancy “I will write a song for the President, full of menacing signs, And back of it all, millions of discontented eyes.
Though this fresh extension of the Labour unrest was happily checked, the Suffragist militancy which was gradually estranging public sympathy did not abate.
The possible methods of combating militancy were the topic principally discussed on the Home Office Vote (June 11).
Repudiating the suggestion that the suffragist members should postpone their efforts till militancy had ceased, he strongly advocated deportation, and welcomed the design attributed to the Government to attack the militants' funds.
Militancy was a bad symptom which showed the need of action.
The militant organisation was widespread and powerful, and militancy was widely connived at by other organisations, such as the Church League for Women's Suffrage.
He was a fervent patriot, an earnest champion of the working classes, and above all a devout and militant Roman Catholic, and in spite of his militancy was profoundly respected by his opponents.
But the continuance of militancy was largely due to the repeated mistakes of the Government.
WAR Herbert Spencer has devoted some eloquent pages[129] to showing that along with chronic militancy there goes a brutal treatment of women, whereas industrial tribes are likely to treat their wives and daughters well.
The day for heavy cavalry and professional militancy was fast approaching when Oswald subjected his tenants to the lex equitandi.
So far from putting an end to militancy, I believe it would be the greatest incentive to militancy which could ever happen.
If that is done I have no doubt the days of militancy are over.
Signs were constantly appearing to indicate that women would no longer be contented with the symbolic militancy involved in window breaking.
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.
Those of you who can express your militancy by going to the House of Commons and refusing to leave without satisfaction, as we did in the early days--do so.
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.
Those of you who can express militancy by facing party mobs at Cabinet Ministers' meetings, when you remind them of their falseness to principle--do so.
I tell it also to show that my development into an advocate of militancy was largely a sympathetic process.
Bail would be allowed, it was stated, if I would agree to give the usual undertaking to refrain from all militancy or incitement to militancy.
No, even from the point of view of public policy, militancy affecting the security of human life would be out of place.
Had the Government acted upon these warnings, by giving women the vote, all the serious acts of militancy that have occurred since would have been averted.
Why is it that men's blood-shedding militancy is applauded and women's symbolic militancy punished with a prison cell and the forcible feeding horror?
Those of you who can express your militancy by joining us in our anti-Government by-election policy--do so.
It was understood by many that they were the last hope of militancy that afternoon; many others, on the contrary, were convinced that they had been simply a feint.
The Spatts had developed into supporters of militancy in a very curious way.
Albeit against his will, Damiani became a soldier of the Church in the fields of her secular militancy against the world.
Apostles, martyrs, saints chant the refrains of victory which echo the past militancy of this faithful choir.
They alone had seriously undertaken to obey the Gospel precept, esto perfecti; and they alone could be regarded as living the life of complete Christian militancy against the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The event proved that they had only driven militancy into a fresh channel.
Well, Seraph, you may disapprove ofmilitancy if you like, but you must suggest something to put in its place.
The class differentiation of which militancy is the actual cause is furthered by the establishment of definite descent, especially male descent, and by the transmission of position and property to the eldest son of the eldest continually.
The political differentiations which militancy originates and which for a long time increase in definiteness, are at later stages and under other conditions interfered with, traversed, and partially or wholly destroyed.
Let us understand that we have in militancy rather than in conciliation, in action rather than in wisdom, the keynote of woman in politics.
But it is impossible to believe that all this militancy was created out of the void.
In the countries where militancy is most pronounced, socialism is most highly developed.
Predominant militancy affords no scope for the egoistic sentiment of justice, and at the same time sympathy is perpetually seared by militant activities.
There had also been heartening signs in her own country, which she hoped were the preparation for more successful militancy to come.
Laws that govern the militancy of a people are not of man's framing, but follow the primitive ordinances of nature that govern all forms of life, from simple protozoa, awash in the sea, to the empires of man.
But I recognize that it has killed the immediate Parliamentary prospects of any and every Suffrage Bill, and that so long as militancy continues the House of Commons will do nothing.
I say, unhesitatingly, that the main obstacle to women getting the vote is militancy and nothing else.
The militants have erected militancy into a principle.
Personally I always try to remember, first, that militancy is the work of only a very small fraction of the women who want the vote and ought to have it, and, secondly, that there have been crazy men just as there are crazy women.
Militancy has not affected my own individual attitude toward the main question and never will.
There co-exists a kindred irreconcilability between the sentiments answering to the forms of co-operation required for militancyand industrialism respectively.
We have seen that along with habitual militancy and under the adapted type of social organization, sympathy cannot develop to any considerable height.
You are obsessed clearly by this discovery of the militancy of God.
At times, and this was particularly the case on this day, he seemed to be discovering nothing but the incurable perversity and militancy of human nature.
The former declared all along that Women were going to be done in the eye, because all the militancy hitherto had got very little in man's way, had only excited smiles, and shoulder-shrugs.
At the height and greatest bitterness of militancy no statesman's life was in danger.
