“One sometimes thinks that the whole art of party politics is to dress shop windows with beautiful motives and noble aims so as to take in the public and keep them quiet while they are carrying out wholesale robberies and murders in the safe seclusion of Government Offices and Departments.”

A sharp critique of how political rhetoric conceals violence and self-interest · Political essay or manuscript

• Hypocrisy
• Politics
• Power

“I question whether ever war has ever been fought for a good cause, though the soldiers who fought it may have been deluded into thinking so.”

Expressing deep scepticism about the motives of war while acknowledging the sincerity of those who fight · Pacifist writings / manuscript

• Peace
• Scepticism
• War

“There is a vista before us of a Spiritual progress which far transcends all political matters. It is the abolition of the ‘manly’ and the ‘womanly.’ Will you not help to sweep them into the museum of antiques?”

A prophetic call to transcend conventional gender roles in favour of deeper human unity · Urania journal (privately published)

• Gender
• Progress
• Spirituality