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The Law is for All
tenable, they knocked the bottom out of their religion. There was 
nothing to fight for. So they degenerated into tame social Centres, 
so that Theosophy with its Black Brothers, Mrs. Eddy with her 
Mental Arsenic Experts,1 and the Evangelical Revivalists with 
their Hell Fire, made people’s flesh creep once more, and got both 
credit and cash.
1 [Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) founded Christian Science and was 
the author of Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures (1895).]
The Book of the Law flings forth no theological fulminations; 
but we have quarrels enough on our hands. We have to fight for 
Freedom against oppressors, religious, social, or industrial; and 
we are utterly opposed to compromise. Every fight is to be a fight 
to the finish; each one of us for himself, to do his own will; and all 
of us for all, to establish the Law of Liberty.
We do not want “professional soldiers”, hired bravos sworn to 
have no souls of their own. They “dare not fight”; for how should 
a man dare to fight unless his cause be a love mightier than his 
love of life? Therefore they “play”; they have sold themselves; 
their Will is no more theirs; life is no longer a serious thing to 
them; therefore they wander wastrel in clubs and boudoirs and 
greenrooms; bridge, billiards, polo, petticoats puff out their 
emptiness; scratched for the Great Race of Life, they watch the 
Derby instead.
Brave such may be; they may well be (in a sense) classed with 
the rat; but brainless and idle they must be, who have no goal 
beyond the grave, where, at the best, chance flings fast-withering 
flowers of false and garish glory. They serve to defend things vital 
to their country; they are the skull that keeps the brain from 
harm? Oh foolish brain! Wert thou not wiser to defend thyself, 
rather than trust to brittle bone that hinders thee from growth?
Let every man bear arms, swift to resent oppression, generous 
and ardent to draw sword in any cause, if justice or freedom 
summon him!
“all fools despise.” In this last phrase the word “fools” is evi­
dently not to be taken in its deeper mystical sense, the context 
plainly bearing reference to ordinary life.