Word: ludovici
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replying Icarus and Crookshank's Mongol in Our Midst, many of the little red books have enjoyed prestige that was largely borrowed. Bertrand Russell wrote a second book (What I Believe), as did Dr. Crookshank (Aesculapius) that stood on independent merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy of Clothes qualified in its own right. But for the most part it seems as if the Duttons have gone unwisely far afield for writers and subjects, thinning out a superb vintage with...
Seeing folk about him champing on false teeth, peering through eyeglasses, taking nightly physics and laxatives, Author Ludovici argues, with hysterical prolixity, the physical degeneracy of the race. He sees in operation the sinister influences of remedial Medicine and the "body-despising" ideals of Christians and Feminists. Says he: "There is no such thing today as a guilty conscience about bodily depravity. ... A clean mouth full of natural teeth, firmly set in unimpaired gums; a clean fresh tongue, not even slightly furred by incipient chronic indigestion; a sweet breath and the natural fragrance of a healthily functioning body?who knows...
...Author Ludovici imputes to Feminists aspirations to "rise above sex" into flat-breasted, man-scorning, virginal creatures tasing only the joys of disembodied spirits and reproducing their kind first by artificial fertilization and Caesarean sections, ultimately by ectogenesis (germs extracted, united, placed in incubator), for which only a small stud of docile males (1 to 2,000 females) would be needed and permitted to survive...
...Captain Ludovici is convinced that sex equality is "a manifest absurdity." He calls for a rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...
...Additions to E. P. Dutton & Co.'s famed "Today and Tomorrow" series, at $1.00 the copy: Lysistrata by Anthony M. Ludovici, Hypatia by the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand (Dora) Russell...