Magick Without Tears

73 "Monsters," Niggers, Jews Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. As you say, "Every man and every woman is a star" does need some attention to the definition of "man" and "woman." What is the position, you say, of "monsters"? And men of "inferior" races, like the Veddah, Hottentot and the Australian Blackfellow? There must be a line somewhere, and will 1 please draw it? You make me feel like Giotto! There is one remark which 1 must make at the beginning. It's some poet or other, Tennyson or Kipling, 1 think (I forget who) that wrote: "Folks in the loomp, is baad." It is true all round. Someone wisely took note that the vilest man alive had always found someone to love him. Remember the monster that Sir Frederick Treves picked up from an East End peep-show, and had petted by princesses? (What a cunning trick!) Revolting, all the same, to read his account of it. He-the monster, not Treves!-seems to have been a most charming individual-ah! That's the word we want. Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, 1 doubt if there is any class which is not detestable to some other class. Artists, police, the clergy, "reds," foxhunters, Freemasons, Jews, "heaven-born," women's clubwomen (espeically in U.S.A.), "Methody," golfers, dog-lovers; you can't find one body without its 'natural' enemies. It's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, 442