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There is one view very common among the liberal minded which is exceedingly fatiguing to the clearheaded.  A clearheaded person can easily conceive his point of view, insofar as he happens to think that baptism does not matter. But the clearheaded will be completely puzzled when they ask themselves why, if he thinks that baptism does not matter, he should think that burial does matter. If it is in no way imprudent for a man to keep himself from consecrated font, how can it be inhuman for other people to keep him from a consecrated field? It is surely much nearer to mere superstition to attach importance to what is done to a dead body than to a live baby. I can understand a man thinking both superstitious or both sacred, but I cannot see why he should grumble that other people do not give him as sanctity what he regards as superstitions. He is merely complaining of being treated as what he himself declares to be. It is if a man were to say, My persecutors still refuse to make me king out of mere malice because I am a strict Republican. Or as if he said, These heartless brutes are so prejudiced against the teetotaler they won't even give him a glass of brandy. The fashion of divorce would not be a modern fashion if it were not full of this touching fallacy. A great deal might be summed up as a most illogical and fanatical appetite for getting married in churches. It is if a man should practice polygamy out of sheer greed for wedding cake. Or it is as if he provided his household with new shoes entirely by having them thrown after the wedding carriage when he went off with a new wife. There are other ways of procuring cake or procuring shoes, and there are other ways of setting up a human establishment. What is unreasonable is the request which the modern man really makes of the religious institutions of his fathers. The modern man wants to buy one shoe without the other, to obtain one half of a supernatural revelation without the other. The modern man wants to eat his wedding cake and have it too. I am not basing this book on the religious argument and therefore I will not pause to inquire why the old Catholic institutions of Christianity seem to be especially made the objects of these unreasonable complaints. As a matter of fact nobody does propose that some ferocious anti-Semite like M. Jermont should be buried as a Jew with all the rights of the synagogue. But the broad-minded were furious because Tolstoy, who had denounced Russian orthodoxy quite as ferociously, was not buried as an orthodox with all the rights of the Russian church. Nobody does insist that a man who wishes to have fifty wives, when Muhammad allowed him five, must have his fifty with the full approval of Muhammad's religion. But the broad-minded are extremely bitter because a Christian who wishes to have several wives when his own promise bound him to one is not allowed to violate his vow at the same altar at which he made it. Nobody does insist on Baptists totally immersing people who totally deny the advantage of being totally immersed. Nobody ever did expect Mormons to receive the open mockers of the Book of Mormon, nor Christian scientists to let their churches be used for exposing Mrs. Eddy as an old fraud. It is only of the forms of Christianity making the Catholic claim that such inconsistent claims are made. And even the inconsistency is, as I fancy, a tribute to an acceptance of the Catholic idea in the Catholic fashion. It may be that men have an obscure sense that nobody need belong to the Mormon religion, and everyone does ultimately belong to the church. And though he may have made a few dozen Mormon marriages in a wandering and entertaining life, he will really have nowhere to go if he does not somehow find his way back to the church yard. But all this concerns the general theological question, and not the matter involved here, which is merely historical and social. The point here is that it is at least superficially inconsistent to ask institutions for a formal approval which they can only give by inconsistency. I have put first the question of what is marriage, and we are now in a position to ask more clearly what is divorce. It is not merely the negation or neglect of marriage, for anyone can always neglect marriage. It is not the dissolution of the legal obligation of marriage, or even the legal obligation of monogamy, for the simple reason that no such obligation exists. Any man in modern London may have a hundred wives if he does not call them wives, or rather, if he does not go through certain, more or less mystical ceremonies in order to assert that they are wives. He might create a certain social coolness round his household, a certain fading of his general popularity, but that is not created by law, and could not be prevented by law. As the late Lord Salisbury very sensibly observed about boycotting in Ireland, how can you make a law to prevent people going out of a room when somebody they don't like comes into it? We cannot be forcibly introduced to a polygamist by a policeman. It would not be an assertion of social liberty, but a denial of social liberty, if we found ourselves practically obliged to associate with all the profligates in society. But divorce is not in this sense mere anarchy. On the contrary, divorce is in this sense respectability, and even a rigid excess of respectability. Divorce in this sense might indeed be not unfairly called snobbery. The definition of divorce, which concerns us here, is that it is the attempt to give respectability and not liberty. It is the attempt to give a certain social status and not a legal status. It is indeed supposed that this can be done by the alteration of certain legal forms, and this will be more or less true according to the extent to which law as such overawed public opinion, or was valued as a true expression of public opinion. If a man divorced in the large-minded fashion of Henry VIII pleaded his legal title among the peasantry of Ireland, for instance, I think he would find a difference still existing between respectability and religion. But the peculiar point here is that many are claiming the sanction of religion as well as of respectability. They would attach to their very natural and sometimes very pardonable experiments a certain atmosphere and even glamour which has undoubtedly belonged to the status of marriage in historic Christendom. But before they make this attempt it would be well to ask why such a dignity ever appeared or in what it consisted. And I fancy we shall find ourselves confronted with the very simple truth that the dignity arose wholly and entirely out of the fidelity and that the glamour merely came from the vow. People were regarded as having a certain dignity because they were dedicated in a certain way, as bound to certain duties, and if it be preferred to certain discomforts. It may be irrational to endure these discomforts, it may even be irrational to respect them, but it is certainly much more irrational to respect them and then artificially transfer the same respect to the absence of them. It is if we were to expect uniforms to be saluted when armies were disbanded and ask people to cheer a soldier's coat when it did not contain a soldier. If you think you can abolish war, abolish it, but do not suppose that when there are no wars to be waged there will still be warriors to be worshipped. If it was a good thing that the monasteries were dissolved let us say so and dismiss them. But the nobles who dissolved the monasteries did not shave their heads and asked to be regarded as saints solely on account of that ceremony. The nobles did not dress up as abbots and asked to be credited with the potential talent for working miracles because of the austerity of their vows of poverty and chastity. They got inside the houses, but not inside the hoods, and still less the halos. They at least knew that it is not the habit that makes the monk. They were not so superstitious as those moderns who think it is the veil that makes the bride. What is respected, in short, is the fidelity to the ancient flag of the family and a readiness to fight for what I have noted as its unique type of freedom. I say readiness to fight for fortunately the fight itself is the exception rather than the rule. The soldier is not respected because he is doomed to death, but because he is ready for death and even ready for defeat. The married man or woman is not doomed to evil, sickness or poverty, but is respected for taking a certain step for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness or in health. But there is one result of this line of argument which should correct a danger in some arguments on the same side. It is very essential that a stricture on divorce, which is in fact simply a defensive marriage, should be independent of sentimentalism, especially in the form called optimism. A man justifying a fight for national independence or civic freedom is neither sentimental nor optimistic. He explains the sacrifice, but he does not explain it away. He does not say that bayonet wounds are pinpricks or mere scratches of the thorns of a rose of pleasure. He does not say that the whole display of firearms is a festive display of fireworks. On the contrary, when he praises it most he praises it as pain rather than pleasure. He increases the praise with pain. It is his whole boast that militarism and even modern science can produce no instrument of torture to tame the soul of a man. It is idle in speaking of war to pit the realistic against the romantic in the sense of the heroic. For all possible realism can only increase the heroism and therefore in the highest sense increase the romance. Now I do not compare marriage with war, but I do compare marriage with law or liberty or patriotism or popular government or any of the human ideals which have often to be defended by war. Even the wildest of those ideals which seem to escape from all the discipline of peace, do not escape from the discipline of war. The Bolshevists may have aimed at pure peace and liberty, but they have been compelled for their own purpose first to raise armies and then to rule armies. In a word, however beautiful you may think your own visions of the attitude, men must suffer to be beautiful, and even suffer a considerable interval of being ugly. And I have known notion of denying that mankind suffers much from the maintenance of the standard of marriage as it suffers from the necessity of criminal law or the recurrence of crusades and revolutions. The only question here is whether marriage is indeed, as I maintain, an ideal and an institution for making popular freedom. I do not need to be told that anything making for popular freedom has to be paid for in vigilance and pain and a whole army of martyrs. Hence I am far indeed from denying the hard cases which exist here, as in all matters involving the idea of honor. For indeed I could not deny them without denying the whole parallel of militant morality on which my argument rests. But this being first understood, it will be well to discuss in a little more detail what are described as the tragedies of marriage. And the first thing to note about the most tragic of them is that they are not tragedies of marriage at all. They are tragedies of sex, and might easily occur in a highly modern romance in which marriage was not mentioned at all. It is generally summarized by saying that the tragic element is the absence of love. But it is often forgotten that another tragic element is often the presence of love. The doctors of divorce with an air of the frank and friendly realism of men of the world are always recommending and rejoicing in a sensible separation by mutual consent. But if we are really to dismiss our dreams of dignity and honor, if we are really to fall back on the frank realism of our experience as men of the world, then the very first thing that our experience will tell us is that it very seldom is a separation by mutual consent. That is, that the consent very seldom is sincerely and spontaneously mutual. By far the commonest problem in such cases is that in which one party wishes to end the partnership and the other does not. And of that emotional situation you can make nothing but a tragedy, whichever way you turn it. With or without marriage, with or without divorce, with or without any arrangements that anybody can suggest or imagine, it remains a tragedy. The only difference is that by the doctrine of marriage it remains both a noble and a fruitful tragedy, like that of a man who falls fighting for his country or dies testifying to the truth. But the truth is that the innovators have as much sham optimism about divorce as any romanticist can have about marriage. They regard their story when it ends in the divorce court through as rosy a mist of sentimentalism as anybody ever regarded a story ending with wedding bells. Such a reformer is quite sure that when once the prince and princess are divorced by the fairy godmother they will live happily ever after. I enjoy romance, but I like it to be rooted in reality, and anyone with a touch of reality knows that nine couples out of ten when they are divorced are left in an exceedingly different state. It will be safe to say in most cases that one partner will fail to find happiness in an infatuation, and the other will from the first accept the tragedy. In the realm of reality and not romance, it is commonly a case of breaking hearts as well as breaking promises, and even dishonor is not always a remedy for remorse. The next limitation to be laid down in the matter affects certain practical forms of discomforts on a level rather lower than love or hatred. The cases most commonly quoted concern what is called drink and what is called cruelty. They are always talked about as matters of fact, though in practice they are very decidedly matters of opinion. It is not a flippancy but a fact that the misfortune of the woman who has married a drunkard may have to be balanced against the misfortune of the man who has married a teetotaler. For the very definition of drunkenness may depend on the dogma of teetotalism. Drunkenness that has been truly observed may mean anything from delirium treatments to having a stronger head than the official appointed to conduct the examination. Mr. Bernard Shaw once professed apparently seriously that any man drinking wine or beer at all was incapacitated from managing a motor car, and still more therefore one would suppose from managing a wife.  The working class is forced to conduct almost in public a normal and varying festive habit which the upper class can afford to conduct in private, and a certain section of the middle class that which happens to concern itself most with local politics and social reforms really has or affects the standard quite abnormal and even alien. They might go to any length of injustice in dealing with the working man or working woman accused of too harding a taste in beer. To mention but one matter out of a thousand, the middle class reformers are obviously quite ignorant of the hours at which working people begin to work because they themselves at eleven o'clock in the morning have only recently finished breakfast and the full moral digestion of the daily mail. They think a charwoman drinking beer at that hour is one of those arising early in the morning to follow after strong drink. Most of them really do not know that she has already done more than half a day's heavy work and is partaking of a very reasonable luncheon. The whole problem with proletarian drink is entangled in a network of these misunderstandings. And there's no doubt whatever that when judged by these generalizations the poor will be taken in a net of injustices. And this truth is as certain in the cases of what is called cruelty as of what is called drink. Nine times out of ten the judgment on a navvy for hitting a woman is about as just as a judgment on him for not taking off his hat to a lady. It is a class test. It may be a class superiority but it is not an act of equal justice between classes. It leaves out a thousand things, the provocation, the atmosphere, the harassing restrictions of space, the nagging which Dickens described as the terrors of temper in a cart, the absence of certain taboos of social training, the tradition of greater roughness even in the gestures of affection. To make all marriage or divorce in the case of such a man turn upon a blow is like blasting the whole life of a gentleman because he has slammed the door. Often a poor man cannot slam the door partly because the model villa might fall down but more because he has nowhere to go. The smoking room, the billiard room, and the peacock music room not being yet attached to his premises. I say this in passing to point out that while I do not dream of suggesting that there are only happy marriages, there will quite certainly as things work nowadays be a very large number of unhappy and unjust divorces. There will be cases in which the innocent partner will receive the real punishment of the guilty partner, though being in fact and feeling the faithful partner. For instance, it is insisted that a married person must at least find release from the society of a lunatic, but it is also true that the scientific reformers with their fuss about the feeble-minded are continually giving larger and looser definitions of lunacy. The process might begin by releasing somebody from a homicidal maniac and end by dealing in the same way with a rather dull conversationalist, but in fact nobody does deny that a person should be allowed some sort of release from a homicidal maniac. The most extreme school of orthodoxy only maintains that anybody who has had that experience should be content with that release. In other words it says he should be content with that experience of mandrimony and not seek another. It was put very wittily, I think, by a Roman Catholic friend of mine who said he approved of release so long as it was not spelled with a hyphen. To put it roughly, we are prepared in some cases to listen to the man who complains of having a wife, but we are not prepared to listen at such length to the same man when he comes back and complains that he has not got a wife. Now in practice at this moment the great mass of the complaints are precisely of this kind. The reformers insist particularly on the pathos of a man's position when he has obtained a separation without a divorce. Their most tragic figure is that of the man who is already free of all those ills he has had and is only asking to be allowed to fly to others that he knows not of. I should be the last to deny that in certain emotional circumstances his tragedy may be very tragic indeed, but his tragedy is of the emotional kind which can never be entirely eliminated and which he himself in all probability inflicted on the partner he has left. We may call it the price of maintaining an ideal or the price of making a mistake, but anyhow it is the point of our whole distinction in the matter. It is here that we draw the line, and I have nowhere denied that it is a line of battle. The battle joins on the debatable ground not of the man's doubtful past but of his still more doubtful future. In a word, the divorce controversy is not really a controversy about divorce. It is a controversy about remarriage, or rather about whether it is marriage at all. And with that we can only return to the point of honor which I have compared here to the point of patriotism. Since it is both the smallest and greatest kind of patriotism, men have died in torments during the last five years for points of patriotism far more dubious and fugitive. Men like the Poles or the Servians, through long periods of their history, may be said rather to have lived in torments. I will never admit that the vital need of the freedom of the family, as I have tried to sketch it here, is not a cause as valuable as the freedom of any frontier. But I do willingly admit that the cause would be a dark and terrible one if it really asked these men to suffer torments. As I have stated it on its most extreme terms, it only asked them to suffer abdignations. And those negative sufferings I do think they may honorably be called upon to bear for the glory of their own oath and the great things by which nations live. In relation to their own nation, most normal men will feel that this distinction between release and re-hyphen lease is neither fanciful nor harsh, but very rational and human. A patriot may be in exile in another country, but he will not be a patriot of another country. He will be as cheerful as he can in an abnormal position, or he may or may not sing his country's songs in a strange land, but he will not sing the strange songs as his own. And such may fairly be also the attitude of the citizen who has gone into exile from the oldest of earthly cities. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Superstition of Divorce by G. K. Chesterton. CHAPTER VIII. THE VISTA OF DIVORCE. The case for divorce combines all the advantages of having it both ways, and of drawing the same deduction from right or left and from black or white. Whichever way the program works in practice it can still be justified in theory. If there are few examples of divorce, it shows how little divorce need be dreaded. If there are many, it shows how much it is required. The rarity of divorce is an argument in favor of divorce, and the multiplicity of divorce is an argument against marriage. Now in truth, if we were confined to considering this alternative in a speculative manner, and there were no concrete facts but only abstract probabilities, we should have no difficulty in arguing our case. The abstract liberty allowed by the reformers is as near as possible to anarchy, and gives no logical or legal guarantee worthy of discussing. The advantages of their reform do not accrue to the innocent party but to the guilty party, especially if he be sufficiently guilty. A man has only to commit the crime of desertion to obtain the reward of divorce. And if they are entitled to take as typical the most horrible hypothetical cases of the abuse of marriage laws, surely we are entitled to take equally extreme possibilities in the abuse of their own divorce laws. If they, when looking about for a husband, so often hit upon a homicidal maniac, surely we may politely introduce them to the far more human figure of the gentleman who marries as many women as he likes and gets rid of them as often as he pleases. But in fact there is no necessity for us to argue thus in the abstract for the amiable gentleman in question undoubtedly exists in the concrete. Of course he has no new figure. He is a very recurrent type of rascal. His name has been Lothario or Don Juan, and he has often been represented as a rather romantic rascal. The point of divorce reform that cannot too often be repeated is that the rascal should not only be regarded as romantic, but regarded as respectable. He is not to sow his wild oats and settle down. He is merely to settle down to sowing his wild oats. They are to be regarded as tame and inoffensive oats, almost as if one may say so, as Quakeroats. But there is no need, as I say, to speculate about whether the looser view of divorce might prevail, for it is already prevailing. The newspapers are full of an astonishing hilarity about the rapidity with which hundreds of thousands of human families are being broken up by the lawyers, and about the undisguised haste of the hustling judges who carry on the work. It is a form of hilarity which would seem to recall the gaiety of a grave-digger in a city swept by pestilence. But a few details occasionally flash by in the happy dance. Sometimes a time the court is moved by a momentary curiosity about the causes of the general violation of oats and promises, as if there might here and there be a hint of some sort of reason for ruining the fundamental institution of society. And nobody who notes these details or considers those faint hints of reason can doubt for a moment that masses of these men and women are now simply using divorce in the spirit of free love. They are very seldom the sort of people who have once fallen tragically into the wrong place and have now found their way triumphantly to the right place. They are almost always people who are obviously wandering from one place to another, and will probably leave their last shelter exactly as they have left their first. But it seems to amuse them to make again if possible in a church, a promise they have already broken in practice and almost avowedly disbelieve in principle. In face of this headlong fashion it is really reasonable to ask the divorce reformers what is their attitude toward the old monogamous ethic of our civilization, and whether they wish to retain it in general or to retain it at all. Unfortunately, even the sincerest and most lucid of them use language which leaves the matter a little doubtful. Mr. E. S. P. Haynes is one of the most brilliant and most fair-minded controversialists on that side, and he has said for instance that he agrees with me in supporting the ideal of indissoluble, or at least of undissolved, marriage. Mr. Haynes is one of the few friends of divorce who are also real friends of democracy, and I'm sure that in practice this stands for a real sympathy with the home, especially the poor home. Unfortunately, on the theoretic side the word ideal is far from being an exact term, and is open to two almost opposite interpretations. For many would say that marriage is an ideal, as some would say that monasticism is an ideal, in the sense of a council of perfection. Now certainly we might preserve a conjugial idea in this way. A man might be reverently pointed out in the street as a sort of saint, merely because he was married. A man might wear a medal for monogamy or have letters after his name similar to V.C. or D.D., let us say, L.W., for lives with his wife, or N.D.Y., for not divorced yet. We might, on entering some strange city, be struck by a stately column erected to the memory of a wife who never ran away with a soldier, or the shrine in image of a historical character who had resisted the example of the man in the new witness ballad in Bolting with the children's nurse. Such high artistic hagiology would be quite consistent with Mr. Haines' divorce reform with remarriage after three years or three hours. It would also be quite consistent with Mr. Haines' phrase about preserving an ideal of marriage. What it would not be consistent with is the perfectly plain, solid, secular, and social usefulness which I have here attributed to marriage. It does not create or preserve a natural institution, normal to the whole community, to balance the more artificial and even more arbitrary institution of the state, which is less natural even if it is equally necessary. It does not defend a voluntary association, but leaves the only claim on life, death, and loyalty with a more coercive institution. It does not stand, in the sense I have tried to explain for the principle of liberty, in short it does not do any of the things which Mr. Haines himself would especially desire to see done. For humanity to be thus spontaneously organized from below, it is necessary that the organization should be almost as universal as the official organization from above. The tyrant must find not one family but many families defying his power. He must find mankind not a dust of atoms, but fixed in solid blocks of fidelity, and those human groups must support not only themselves but each other. In this sense what some call individualism is as corporate as communism. It is a thing of volunteers, but volunteers must be soldiers. It is a defense of private persons, but we might say that the private persons must be private soldiers. The family must be recognized as well as real. Above all, the family must be recognized by the families. To expect individuals to suffer successfully for a home, apart from the home, that is for something which is an incident, but not an institution, is really a confusion between two ideas. It is a verbal sophistry almost in the nature of a pun. Similarly, for instance, we cannot prove the moral force of a peasantry by pointing to one peasant. We might almost as well reveal the military force of infantry by pointing to one infant. I take it, however, that the advocates of divorce do not mean that marriage is to remain ideal only in the sense of being almost impossible. They do not mean that a faithful husband is only to be admired as a fanatic. The reasonable men among them do really mean that a divorced person shall be tolerated as something unusually unfortunate, not merely that a married person shall be admired as something unusually blessed and inspired. But whatever they desire, it is as well that they should realize exactly what they do. And in this case I should like to hear the criticisms in the manner of what they see. They must surely see that in England at present, as in many parts of America in the past, the new liberty is being taken in the spirit of license, as if the exception were to be the rule, or rather perhaps the absence of rule. This will especially be made manifest if we consider that the effect of the process is accumulative like a snowball and returns on itself like a snowball. The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason, they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason. A man might quite clearly foresee that a sensual infatuation would be fleeting and console himself with the knowledge that the connection could be equally fleeting. There seems no particular reason why he should not elaborately calculate that he could stand a particular lady's temper for ten months, or reckon that he could have enjoyed and exhausted her repertoire of drawing Roman songs in two years. The old joke about choosing the wife to fit the furniture or the fashions might quite logically return not as an old joke, but as a new solemnity. Indeed, it will be found that new religion is generally the return of the old joke. A man might quite consistently see a woman as suited to the period of the hobble-skirt and as less suited to the threatened recurrence of the Gryndolin. These fancies are fantastic enough, but they are not a shade more fantastic than the facts of many a divorce controversy as urged in the divorce courts. And this is to leave out altogether the most fantastic fact of all, the winking at widespread and conspicuous collusion. Collusion has become not so much an illegal evasion as a legal fiction, and even a legal institution, as it is admirably satirized in Mr. Somerset Mom's brilliant play Home in Beauty. The fact was very frankly brought before the public by a man who was imminently calculated to disarm satire by sincerity. Colonel Wedgwood is a man who can never be too much honored by all who have any hope of popular liberties, still finding champions in the midst of parliamentary corruption. He is one of the very few men alive who have shown both military and political courage, the courage of the camp and the courage of the forum, and doubtless he showed a third type of social courage in avowing the absurd expedient which so many others are content merely to accept and employ. It is admittedly a frank and farcical thing that a good man should find or think it necessary to pretend to commit a sin. Some of the divorce moralists seem to deduce from this that he ought really to commit the sin. They may possibly be aware, however, that there are some who do not agree with them. For this latter fact is the next step in the speculative progress of the new morality. The divorce advocates must be well aware that modern civilization still contains strong elements, not the least intelligent and certainly not the least vigorous, which will not accept the new respectability as a substitute for the old religious vow. The Roman Catholic Church, the Anglo-Catholic school, the conservative peasantries, and a large section of the popular life everywhere, will regard the riot of divorce and remarriage as they would any other riot of irresponsibility. The consequence would appear to be that two different standards will appear in ordinary morality and even in ordinary society. Instead of the old social distinction between those who are married and those who are unmarried, there will be a distinction between those who are married and those who are really married. Society might even become divided into two societies, which is perilously approximate to Disraeli's famous exaggeration about England divided into two nations. But whether England be actually so divided or not, this note of the two nations is the real note of warning in the matter. It is in this connection perhaps that we have to consider most gravely and doubtfully the future of our own country. Anarchy cannot last, but anarchic communities cannot last either. Mere lawlessness cannot live, but it can destroy life. The nations of the earth always return to sanity and solidarity, but the nations which return to it first are the nations which survive. We in England cannot afford to allow our social institutions to go to pieces as if this ancient and noble country were an ephemeral colony. We cannot afford it comparatively, even if we could afford it positively. We are surrounded by vigorous nations mainly rooted in the peasant or permanent ideals, notably in the case of France and Ireland. I know that the detested and detestably undemocratic parliamentary clique, which corrupts France, as it does England, was persuaded or bribed by a Jew named Naquist to pass a crude and recent divorce law which was full of the hatred of Christianity. But only a very superficial critic of France can be unaware that French parliamentarianism is superficial. The French nation as a whole, the most rigidly respectable nation in the world, will certainly go on living by the old standards of domesticity. When French men are not Christians, they are heathens, the heathens who worship the household gods. It might seem strange to say, for instance, that an atheist like Monsieur Clemenceau has, for his chief ideal, a thing called piety. But to understand this it is only necessary to know a little Latin and a little French. A short time ago, as I am well aware, it would have sounded very strange to represent the old religion and peasant communities, either as a model or a menace. It was counter to queer thing to say, in the days when my friends and I first said it, in the days of my youth, when the Republic of France and the religion of Ireland were regarded as alike, ridiculous and decadent. But many things have happened since then, and it will not now be so easy to persuade even newspaper readers that Foch is a fool, either because he is a Frenchman or because he is a Catholic. The older tradition, even in the most unfashionable forms, has found champions in the most unexpected quarters. Only the other day, Dr. Salibi, a distinguished scientific critic who had made himself the special advocate of all the instruction and organization that is called social science, startled his friends and foes alike by saying that the peasant families in the west of Ireland were far more satisfactory and successful than those brooded over by all the benevolent sociology of Bradford. He gave his testimony from an entirely rationalistic and even materialistic point of view. Indeed, he carried rationalism so far as to give the preferences to Ross Common because the women are still mammals. To a mind of the more traditional type it might seem sufficient to say that they are still mothers. To a memory that lingers over the legends and lyrical movements of mankind it might seem no great improvement to imagine a song that ran, my mammal bids me bind to my hair, or I'm to be queen of the may mammal. I'm to be queen of the may. But indeed the truth to which he testified is all the more arresting, because for him it was materialistic and not mystical. The brute biological advantage as well as other advantages was with those for whom that truth was a truth, and it was all the more instinctive and automatic where that truth was a tradition. The sort of place where mothers are still something more than mammals is the only sort of place where they are still mammals. There the people are still healthy animals, healthy enough to hit you if you call them animals. I also have on this merely controversial occasion used throughout the rationalistic and not the religious appeal. But it is not unreasonable to note that the materialistic advantages are really found among those who most repudiate materialism. The one stray testimony is but a type of a thousand things of the same kind which will convince any one with a sense of social atmosphere that the day of the peasantries is not passing but rather arriving. It is the more complex types of society that are now entangled in their own complexities. Those who tell us with a monotonous metaphor that we cannot put the clock back seem to be curiously unconscious of the fact that their own clock has stopped. And there is nothing so hopeless as a clockwork when it stops. A machine cannot mend itself, it requires a man to mend it. And the future lies with those who can make living laws for men and not merely dead laws for machinery. Those living laws are not to be found in the scatterbrained skepticism which is busy in the great cities, dissolving what it cannot analyze. The primary laws of man are to be found in the permanent life of man, in those things that have been common to it in every time and land, though in the highest civilization they have reached an enrichment like that of the divine romance of Cana in Galilee. We know that many critics of such a story say that its elements are not permanent, but indeed it is the critics who are not permanent. A hundred mad dogs of heresy have worried man from the beginning, but it was always the dog that died. We know there is a school of prigs who disapprove of the wine, and there may now be a school of prigs who disapprove of the wedding. For in such a case as the story of Cana, it may be remarked that the pedants are prejudiced against the earthly elements as much as or more than the heavenly elements. It is not the supernatural that discuss them so much as the natural. And those of us who have seen all the normal rules and relations of humanity uprooted by random speculators as if they were abnormal abuses and almost accidents, will understand why men have sought for something divine if they wish to preserve anything human. They will know why, common sense, cast out from some academy of fads and fashions conducted on the lines of a luxurious madhouse, has age after age sought refuge in the highest sanity of a sacrament. Chapter 9 Conclusion This is a pamphlet, and not a book, and the writer of a pamphlet not only deals with passing things, but generally with things which he hopes will pass. In that sense it is the object of a pamphlet to be out of date as soon as possible. It can only survive when it does not succeed. The successful pamphlets are necessarily dull, though I have no great hope of this being successful. I dare say it is dull enough for all that. It is designed merely to note certain fugitive proposals of the moment and compare them with certain recurrent necessities of the race. But especially the necessity for some spontaneous social formation freer than that of the state. If it were more in the nature of a work of literature with anything like an ambition of endurance, I might go deeper into the matter and give some suggestions about the philosophy or religion of marriage and the philosophy or religion of all these rather random departures from it. Some day perhaps I may try to write something about the spiritual or psychological quarrel between faith and fads. Here I will only say in conclusion that I believe the universal fallacy here is a fallacy of being universal. There is a sense in which it is a really human, if heroic, possibility to love everybody. And the young student will not find it a bad preliminary exercise to love somebody. But the fallacy, I mean, is that of a man who is not even content to love everybody, but really wishes to be everybody. He wishes to walk down a hundred roads at once, to sleep in a hundred houses at once, to live a hundred lives at once. To do something like this in the imagination is one of the occasional visions of art and poetry. To attempt it in the art of life is not only anarchy, but in action. Even in the arts it can only be the first hint and not the final fulfillment. A man cannot work at once in bronze and marble or play the organ and the violin at the same time. The universal vision of being such a bryarius is a nightmare of nonsense, even in the merely imaginative world, and ends in myrnillism in the social world. If a man had a hundred houses there would still be more houses than he had days in which to dream of them. If a man had a hundred wives there would still be more women than he could ever know. He would be an insane sultan, jealous of the whole human race and even of the dead and the unborn. I believe that behind the art and philosophy of our time there is a considerable element of this bottomless ambition and this unnatural hunger. And since in the last words I am touching only lightly on things that would need much larger treatment, I will admit that the rending of the ancient roof of man is probably only part of such an endless and empty expansion. I asked in the last chapter what those most wildly engaged in the mere dance of divorce, as fantastic as the dance of death, really expected for themselves or for their children. And in the deepest sense I think this is the answer that they expect the impossible. That is the universal. They are not crying for the moon, which is a definite and therefore a defensible desire. They are crying for the world, and when one had it they would want another one. In the last resort they would like to try every situation, not in fancy but in fact, but they cannot refuse any and therefore cannot resolve on any. In so far as this is the modern mood it is a thing so deadly as to be already dead. What is vitally needed everywhere in art as much as in ethics, in poetry as much as in politics is choice, a creative power in the will as well as in the mind. Without that self-limitation of somebody nothing living will ever see the light. The End of Chapter 9 The End of the Superstition of Divorce by G. K. Chesterton


It's Hopalong Cassidy! With action and suspense, out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd. The Ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West, Hopalong Cassidy! This famous hero thrills his 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventure. In the role of Hopalong Cassidy is the popular star of the motion picture series, William Boyd. And now, another exciting story of the early West. Hopi pays a debt. In these early days of the West, when you wanted to learn all about a fellow you're planning to do business with, you generally head for the local bank. The banker is not just a man to care for your earnings, he knows folks troubles and their secrets. So Hopi and California ride down the dusty main street to the Brills Corners Bank and check the credit of a new Bar 20 customer. A cloud of alkali dust swirls about them as they stop, tie off at the hitch and rail and enter the bank. Mr. Kittle has his own office right back in this corner. I hope he ain't going home. It's kind of late. I don't think so. It looks like he's busy. Sit down. Wait a minute. Be right with ya! Hey, this is a pretty fancy setup. I wish we had banks like this around the Bar 20. Yes, go on home, Steve. There's nothing you can do about it now. There's plenty I can do, Mr. Kittle. Let's fight and talk, Steve. I am it to be. I don't think I ain't obliged to you, sir. I'm just gonna have to work it out my way. Now think it over, my boy. Your way means serious trouble. Goodbye, Mr. Kittle. Thanks again. I'm sorry, gentlemen. I... Why, Cassidy? Hop along, Cassidy? I hardly knew you without my glasses. Howdy, Mr. Kittle. Well, what on earth brings you here? Been about 12 years since I laid eyes on you. 15 to be exact. I don't want to be prying, Mr. Kittle, but that boy that just went out. Oh, old man Henderson's boy. Not his own flesh and blood, you know. Why, darn hoppy, we know Henderson. Yeah. You mean this is the button who survived the shooting at Squaw Creek? Yep. The old man Henderson took him in and did for him like he would his own. He ain't no trouble, is he? Well, I'm afraid he is. He got mixed up with that crowd at the Black Deuce Cafe. Come out on $10,000 gambling debt. Hmm. Seems like he's got a mind of his own. Yeah, that's the trouble, hoppy. I've been trying to keep him straight. But if his father learns of this latest affair, he'll disown him proper. The, uh, the Black Deuce, I don't place it. New outfit moved in and took over. Fella by the name of Bates, Blackie Bates. Well, where on earth can't we do something to help the boy, hoppy? Not much he can do with that boy, California. I don't believe that. Get a boy on the right trail and there's good in all of them. Well, I've done all I could. He's up to his boot tops in trouble with Blackie Bates, which is just another way of saying he's asking for a belly full of lead. Oh, well, here have a chair. Care for a cigar? What can I do for you? Just checking a little on a fellow's credit, but that can wait. Something more important needs attention. You mean the Henderson Youngin? Yeah, I kinda hate to see a young fellow walk into trouble wearing blinkers. Uh, come on, California. Where are you bound for, hoppy? Well, since I've never met this Blackie Bates, I guess now's as good a time as any. Well, more than likely you'll find Blackie back in his private office. Thanks, Mr. Kittle. See you later. Like it's not the ruckus he's already started. Yeah, I was there at the shooting this quarry. So I have real folks gunned down. Too late to help then. But come on, I'm gonna make up for that now. Now back to Hop along Cassidy and Hoppy pays a debt. Young Steve Henderson of the Bar over H Ranch has become involved with the crowd at Blackie Bates Black Deuce Cafe. Old man Henderson is a friend of Hoppy, so Hoppy feels it's up to him to see that young Henderson gets a fair deal. Hoppy in California followed the young man to the Black Deuce Cafe. So this is the Black Deuce Cafe? Yeah, it's like a bad place to start trouble. Kittle said Beach's office was in the bank. This hall to our left must go back there. One of his guns will garden the hall. Don't see young Henderson anywhere out here. We better go on back. I'm right with you Hoppy. We have to trick this guard saves noise. He sees us coming. Hold up there partner. Ain't nobody loud back in this hallway. We have to see Beach. What for? It's awful important. Ain't nobody going back there. He's busy. Got a mighty important message for Blackie here. Yeah, let's see the message. Where is it? Right on this card. Kind of dark to read anything. Uh yeah, let's step down the hall a bit under the light. But there ain't no writing on this card. Got him Hoppy. Let him down easy like dragging back there out of sight in this corner. No telling how many of his crowd are close by.  That's all right. Leave him there. Now that door at the end of the hall looks like it might be the office. We crashing it Hoppy? Not unless we have to. We better get up close and hear what we can. Then I'll know how to lay my plans. If that ten thousand ain't a hill by tomorrow night Anderson, you'll be heading for a boot hill. I gotta have more time Blackie. I'm collecting from you or from your old man. No, no, not my daddy to kill him. His heart ain't good. I'll get it for you. If they know why you owe these ten thousand. You're not done well. I never play cards. Somebody put something in my food. When I woke up you were showing me this IOU. It's assigned by you. That means your old man has to pay. Yeah.  Yeah, what?  Are you no good? All right, all right. I'll get it for you. Yeah. I thought you would. Maybe you'll rather play this smart way. Save yourself a lot of trouble. Save me from going to your park. I ain't stealing it. Of course not. Nothing like that. Your past run a herd of bees to the railroad tomorrow. I haven't put one of my boys on as a trail hand. What are you aiming to do? Then I'm going to call our debt square. You mean Russell? I don't use that word. We just cut out a few hundred heads. Run them up ginger creek away and your debt is paid. Well, let me think it over, Blackie. Their thinking's all been done for you. From now on it's action and you're going along with it. Well, Hoppy, you heard what's going on. Maybe kiddo's right. The boys turned bad. Too early to say, California. Well, darn it, you heard him say he'd help Russell his own paws cattle. Maybe trying to spar for a time. That boy's crowded right up against the fence. He sure hates to see Henderson selling out. Well, my plan works. He won't sell out. Be careful what you say to Henderson. The ranch is just ahead. Lucky we beat the boy back here. Looks like a lot of action that the Henderson spread. Yeah. Durned if Banker Kittle ain't right. He's rounding up that herd for the trail. And Henderson doesn't look very happy about it. You saying anything about the boy? Nothing to say. Maybe if we listen, Henderson will tell us the way things are going. It'll be sure a fat-looking herd, Hoppy. Yeah, too nice to be selling. Well, if you wait a sight good to see. And that old cowboy, California, brings you around these parts. Hello, Henderson. Just dropped out to pay our respects. It's a good thing you did. I don't think I'll be around after next week. You selling out? Yeah, sir. I guess I am, boys. Things ain't worked out like I thought they would. Uh, cattle look fat. Oh, tink, that Hoppy. Durned. It ain't money. It's something inside of me here. Oh, busted up. Oh, sure. Sorry to hear that, Henderson. There, your soul knows this, Hoppy, but I gotta tell somebody or I'll bust. Oh, what's wrong? It's my boy. I had hopes he was carrying on. I planned to turn the ranch over to him day after tomorrow when he's 21. He's smart. He's been to school. What's wrong with a boy? He's turned bad on me. Been gambling, losing money. Wants to 5,000 and wants to 3,000. Paid off and said nothing. Didn't want him to think I was trying. Well, maybe it ain't his fault. And he's old enough to know right from wrong. Of course, they made a big thing over him at the Black Deuce Cafe. Oh, yeah, that's Flaky Bates's place. Hoppy, I'd kill that ruttler if I thought I'd help anybody. He's the one many a boy. Maybe there's a way without gunplay, Anderson. The law can't touch him. Every shady deal he's in on, it's done by his heirloom. He's always clear. Mr. Henderson, when's the herd taken to the trail? It's ready now. Just got me a new trail rider. See if we can get him through without losing him like I done last year. Rustlers? Yep, 400 head. Never found hiding or hearing him. Suppose California and I ride trail with the boys. Nobody knows us, not even your boy. We could keep an eye on them. Say, would you hoppy? I'll pay you good wages. Oh, sweet, I want no wages. Not from you, Anderson. Sometimes there's more important things than money. Oh, say, there comes my boy now riding in. And look at that kid. Straight as an arrow. Rides like his old man. I know how you feel, Anderson. And remember, these things have a way of working themselves out. Well, we got a good view up here. Right below is Ginger Creek. Or they're going to cut out some of the herd. Well, the boys riding along with that guard from Blackies. The one we put to sleep. Yep, it's the same one. Look, hoppy, that sidewinder is cutting some out. Looks like the boys helping him. There they go, turning up the creek. And the rest of the herd going straight ahead. You can see nobody up ahead knows it. Oh, sure makes me feel bad. Knowing that boys are turning on his paw that way. Don't judge him too soon, California. Remember, the boys desperate. Gambling that away costing his paw thousands. Maybe he didn't gamble. Boy, his own paw's head he did. And I'd like to take that Blackie Beats' neck in my two hens and twist till his eyeballs pop out the varmints. Wouldn't help a bit. We got to take our time so we know which way to move. Time's awfully important, hoppy. You're right, California. We let this go far enough. Now we got to get to that Henderson Boy and work fast. Stay close to these rocks, California. They're staying out of sight. Maybe surprise them. We do look out for gunplay. That guard is a bad ombre. Gosh, looking them cattle. Just as bad as butter. They'll bring a mighty high price. I think we can meet up with the kid round this bend. Rich, partner. Well, if it ain't my friend with a message for Blackie, I was hoping I'd meet up with you again. Thought we'd look around for strays. Seem to be a lot of them. We're in the brand over H brand. Kid, take them six guns off on these hood owls. Infection here while I cover up. I told you we'd get into trouble. Do like I say. Get. There. I got both of them. Room to me.  Huh. I'll be darned if it has. Ain't nobody knows about it but us four. Now don't go on it, fellow. What are we going to do, Lacey? Do? Well, that ain't hard to figure. Two of us come in here. You and me. And there's only two going back out. You and me. Now back to Hop along Cassidy and our story, Hoppy settles a debt. Blackie Bates is still holding an IOU for $10,000 over the head of young Steve Henderson. Steve has become panicky for fear Blackie will tell his father about the affair and is working with Blackie's gunsel Lacey to rustle some of his own dad's cattle to square the debt. Hoppy in California know of this and ride to Ginger Creek where they find the cattle and Steve. But an alert gunman got the drop on Hop along and is going to kill them to keep them quiet. Wait, Lacey. They might come back looking for me. If they heard the shot we couldn't explain. Er, maybe you're right. I'll go up to the ridge and see if they've moved on. I don't like it, Lacey. That ain't what you like. You keep them coming and I'll get back. Killings are hanging offence. Killing ain't in my line. How about rustling cattle? That ain't in my line either. A fellow who doesn't do any killing and doesn't like rustling, you're mixed up in some pretty bad company, Steve. You know my name. And we know you're Paul. He's a good man. Stop your talking. Be sure, Steve. Too good to be getting a deal he's getting. I didn't want to do this. Yeah. You gotta believe me. We know. You know. We was listening when Blackie Bates threatened to tell you're Paul about the $10,000. Er, we're here to help you, Steve. I never saw you before. I don't know you're not lying. Hop along, Cassidy, don't lie. Hop along? You mean you're hop along, Cassidy? I heard my Paul talk about you lots of times. You gotta make a decision, Steve. My father hates me. Oh, go on it, Steve. He don't know such things.  Or he wouldn't have paid off your other gambling debts and said nothing. Other gambling debts? I never owed a cent in my life. You sure about that? Sure as I'm here. I swear it, Mr. Cassidy. How about the $10,000? That's different.  Yeah, I guess your Pa'd rather see you that way, too, than doing what you're doing. What am I gonna do? That's a decision for you to make. You'd better make it fast. Here comes your pal. My mind's made up. When this Lacey gets back, I'ma tell him. Better be ready for action, then. Be the sign of a human or animal. Lacey? Lacey, I ain't going through with it. Why, you snivelin' little... Look out, Steve, give Hoppy room. I gotta score to settle with you. Here's one for Steve. What are we gonna do with him, Hoppy? I'll leave him where he is. Let him go back to Blackie Bates and tell him his scheme failed. Supposing he beats us back to town? Well, if he does, he can walk fast, then we can ride. Get out of here! His horse will just go back to the livery stable, and they'll come looking for him. By that time, I hope to have this whole mess cleaned up. What about the herd this fella cut out? They'll be all right back in the draw. We can get them any time, but right now we're holding a meeting with Mr. Blackie Bates. We're passin' right by the Black Dew, Hoppy. I don't plan on goin' in the front door. Whatever you do, count me in, Mr. Cassidy. I will, Steve. I'll swing around back to the Blacksmith shop and tie up. You can see the light in Blackie's office from here. Good. Tie him up and let's get out of sight. Sure feels good, Mr. Cassidy. What feels good? Feels good being a man, instead of a cheater. I'd like to hear you say that, Steve. Everything seems so different now, thanks to you. I've got the courage to stand right up to Blackie Bates and have it out. I don't know about what Blackie won't clear you, Steve. Well, during it, something's gotta be done, Hoppy, and fast. Blackie's a pretty slick umbrae. That's why he's never been caught in anything. His gunnies always do the job for him. And he always got a clean alibi. Then we have to set a trap and hope he walks into it. Got an idea, Hoppy? Well, that's worth tryin', but it means rough goin' for Steve. Ain't afraid of rough goin'. What do I do? You gotta get Blackie mad. That ain't gonna be hard to do.  Now, California... Not me.  Wait a minute. Of course not, California. I want you to go in the Black Deuce with Steve. In the front? Yeah. Blackie never wears a six-gun in his office. You don't have to with them hired gunnies at his right outside his door. You sure about that? I know I'm right. He always hangs his holster and belt right back at his desk near the window. Steve, I want you to go right into Blackie's office and tell him you want to settle a score. Boy, that kid ain't got a chance back there, Hoppy. Yes, he has. I'll be there just outside the window. I'll back his hand. And then? Tell Blackie you don't intend to pay the ten thousand dollars. I guess you know more than I do what you got up your sleeve. If you say to do it, I sure will. And remember this. The most important thing. Tell Blackie your paw won't pet.   And all gone if he ain't got his paw spunk. California, I'll take that six-gun you took off that ombre back in the draw. Plum forgot I had it. Here. This gun's going to be important. Looks like any other old six-gun. That's what I'm hopin'. Now, hurry up. It's gettin' late. We got to spring the trap tonight. Yeah? Come in. Come in. Oh, it's you, Mr. Kittle. Something is wrong at the bank? At the bank today, as you said you would, Mr. Bates. Ain't it made up of my cash? It's, uh, not the cash. It's, uh, this. What's that? A letter from the Gallup Mining Company. Offering you third interest in Gallup No. 3 for 15,000. Oh, can't that wait till the bank in hours of tomorrow? Oh, too late. Your answer must leave on the early stage. Sure is worth the money. Who is it? Steve. What are you doin' here? What's wrong? I ain't goin' through with it, Blackie. What are you?  Tomorrow, I'm not a boy. I'll be the owner of the Bar-over-H Ranch. Kittle, I see you at the bank early in the morning. No. Kittle can hear this, too. I just want you to know I'm not payin' off the $10,000, Blackie. What? And my pa isn't payin' it off, neither. Cause I don't know it. We see about that. And you ain't man enough to collect it from him. I'm a collector, and at $10,000, our Boothill is gonna have a new box. Boothill may get a new box, but neither Pa nor me is gonna be in it. Now, Mr. Bates, don't lay a hand on Steve. He sees a wand that I'm a collector to myself, a personal. Suit yourself. But I ain't the crawling spook I was yesterday. Pa and me will bust this town wide open, Amara. Why, you snag- Riggs, Blackie! Riggs! Wait! Now look here, Kittle. I'm covering you to save you from a hang-oose. Not because I got any love for you. Now you go on, Steve, get outta here, and keep ridin'. You gotta beat Blackie to the ranch, Mr. Cassidy. The way he was raging Pa's life ain't worth a nickel if we don't. Now, Blackie ain't passed us on this road, that's for sure. I'm not letting anything happen to your Pa, Steve, not for anything in this world. You beach me how you can wade right into trouble like this, Hoppy, and always know just what to do. Guess it would be mighty risky for anybody else to take these chances. But doggone it with you, things always seem to turn out. Wait a minute, pull up the horses. Listen, do you hear what I hear? I hear a horse here, if that's what you mean. Ridin' fast. Yeah, too fast. Steve, is there any other road to your ranch? Well, I know, this is the... Mr. Cassidy, there is another one. A shortcut that forwards the stream. Come on! I forgot about it. I used to ride it as a kid. Oh, Mr. Cassidy. Easy, Steve. Just around this bend now. I think I've done this to Pa after all he'd done for me. This is all I'm doing. No, Steve, this part of it is my plan. We don't even know it's Blackie. Chocks, maybe it's just... We can jump this fence here. Come on, boy! Now cut through this grove. You lead the way, Steve. Hope you're right about things always turning out for me, California. I got my gun out, Hoppy. Well, put it away while you're riding behind me. There's Blackie's horse! Lead us to your Pa's bedroom quick. Oh, no! Pa! Now back to Hop along Cassidy. Come on, Steve. Pa! Don't move, I got you covered. Drop that gun. What in tarnation's going on here? Oh, Pa, you're alive. Put on the light, California. Sure. Maybe then I can see what's going on. Ain't sure yet who shot who. Kittle! White's banker Kittle and... Blackie. Yeah, Blackie's dead. I raised Blackie out here. I knew he was gunning for Henderson. What in blazes is all this about? First thing I knew I heard some shots and... It was Blackie gunning for you, Henderson. I thought he'd gotten you for sure. How could he miss, Pa? How could you still be alive? Why, that rattler was a standin' over you with a smokin' gun when I shot him. Point blank range. I don't know how he missed you. Disappointed, aren't you, Kittle? California, keep your gun on our banker friend here. We're sure, Harvey. Now see here, Mr. Kittle kept Blackie from shooting me back in town a few minutes ago, and now he's saved Pa. You got no right to... No, Steve. Take a look at Blackie's gun here. You'll understand why your Pa is still alive. Blanks? Yeah, a blank cartridge was thrown in this gun. Blackie was shooting at your Pa. I don't gun that sure. Where's your lucky break? I reached in the window of Blackie's office and exchanged his gun for this one of laces.  Sure, and that's the one thing that has made Kittle's little scheme backfire. Say, I've taken about all of this slender... Furthermore, Kittle, I know you didn't race Blackie out to this ranch.  Why, I... You waited in the next room for Blackie to arrive. Mr. Cassidy, how do you know that when we only just arrived?  Roomie, you bet your boots I ain't. Well, this is ridiculous. I shot Blackie.  Well, I mean, this don't make sense. Kittle's been my friend for 25 years, handled all the business. And stole money from you fast and you could make it. What? Me? You told Mr. Henderson that you paid off several debts to Blackie, with Steve owed for gambling thousands of dollars. That was a lie. And you knew that by tomorrow, unless you could get Henderson to sell out everything, Steve would take over and discover your thefts. I guess I'm kind of thick, but why did Kittle here gun down Blackie? Because Blackie and Kittle worked together to frame Steve. And Kittle wanted to get rid of him. This way he could do it and be a hero. Well, I guess I might as well carry Blackie out. Yeah. Paul, Paul, listen. The clock. It's midnight. What do you mean? Getting late? I'm... I'm 21. Oh, God. I guess you are. Where's that razor strap of mine? Got to give you a licking? Oh, no. No, you don't, Mr. Henderson. You got to show respect to the new owner of the Bar-over-H Ranch. You know, Steve, I never saw a boy become a man quite so quick. Yeah, sure have. Thanks to you. Goodbye from Hopalong Cassidy in California. These partners will be riding out again soon into another threatening episode, and we hope you'll be with us. Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is transcribed and produced in the West by Walter White Jr. Hoppy pays a debt, was written by Howard Swart. All stories are based upon the characters created by Clarence Mulford. This is a Commodore production. 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Today I'm happy to be interviewing one of the members and advisors of the authentic business community or ABC And if you have any questions, you can in fact ask her more questions about it Her name is Bing's Huang and she is an intuitive healer and we're going to be talking about a wonderful topic today The topic is gentleness and how it can be how can have a healing effect on you So let me read you Bing's bio and then I'll bring her on for the conversation Bing's Huang is an intuitive healer who is passionate about helping fellow empaths manage their overwhelm better So that they can embrace their openness as a beautiful gift She is currently writing a book to share her three-step healing framework, which is be gentle be you and stay open Bing's thanks for having this conversation and welcome Thanks for having me judge. Yeah, great to have you here Do I just like to mention that I just had a south road this morning So sorry about the voice You we are practicing this topic is about gentleness so Practice gentleness in this conversation with your voice as well So if you need to sip some, you know Drink while while we're speaking that's perfectly fine. So the beings tell tell us about What does gentleness mean to you? Why has it become important for you? it I I've been learning energy healing various energy healing modalities for the past ten years and They belong to usually there are two types of healing The proactive one where we actively do things or send energies to the client's body And the other one is the more passive one where we just observe and Allow things to unfold gently So I really love the second concept of allowing things to unfold gently and It works for me because as an empath myself I easily overwhelmed usually with emotions from other people and just like to Share about my experience with my mentor who taught me This modality caught the wonder method so wonder as in a child like wonder and When I first had a session with him on the wonder method I was receiving the healing and It felt like Nothing happened at all. I was still myself but I was very much myself and I felt very grounded and very present so It's really a beautiful experience is it's nothing like the superhero kind of But I love this because I feel like I am I'm on me and I would like to share this with other empaths who feel overwhelmed with energies from the outside Yeah, I love this idea of wonder and gentleness It is such a well beautiful way to go through life and a grace graceful way and gentleness to me is Is kind of a trust right trust in? yes life and that We don't have to try so hard to get somewhere but that We can That I guess success or our goals can happen In a more in a more natural way So I like that you're bringing this in so Tell us about You know and and I'm glad you mentioned the word overwhelmed because I think a lot of people watching this or listening to this Can relate to to the feelings of overwhelmed especially these days with the amount of social media and With the amount of opportunities or connections And just life gets so busy and more and more busy. It feels like as as the years go on And also we should mention you you have young children So that is of course, you know Very overwhelming to be a mother Yeah, so so thank you for bringing that idea in and I know and so how how does gentleness Help with overwhelm or how how can it help with that for those who are watching who who do feel that? Okay, so So we have two types of nervous systems. So one is the sympathetic And which is the firefly response and the other one is parasympathetic which helps in digestion and healing and strengthening our immune system and That is the pie called gentleness. So We already have this innate gentleness that we need to allow more of in our increasingly busy lives So if I think Let's just spend a minute to contemplate on this as possible so I like you to Just be aware of your breathing the way you are breathing right now and you can pay slight attention to your throat How the air is moving in and out of your throat As you breathe and as you do this you start to feel this gentle energies in your body and There may be a slight flow of energy moving Around in your body, so I always picture it like a little Angel Gently flying across to various sides of various parts of your body and Just doing gentle restoration Lowing your shoulders to soften Lowing your breath to deepen allowing what you've been compressing To unwind more hope you can feel this softness in your body as well. So this is the Short exercise that you can do at any time of the day Just to allow the gentleness in so that you are not I'm Bracing yourself to all your daily tasks. I know I do that when I'm At my computer when I'm typing my books, so I need to remind myself that I'm not doing a marathon and Yeah your co-working sessions really help as well for Allowing me to be mindful So these are things we can do in our everyday life to practice gentleness I'm so glad this is recorded because people can watch that segment again to practice along So that's wonderful So you are writing a book. This is exciting. This is wonderful and You are going to be putting together this this idea of a gentleness toolkit Right. Yeah. Oh, so talk about that. What what is part of the toolkit for for gentleness? Okay, so so my first Training in being gentle is in being aware of the energy So practicing energy healing, but it's not really for everyone can feel very abstract So it would be good to have certain physical reminders at your side to remind you to be gentle in yourself So the these are the top three things that I use. So the first one would be my son's So hugging them. So the physical hugs and kisses really allows me to soften myself and Growing up in my family, I wasn't used to hugging so among Constrained in that part of showing physical affection and This hugging is really new to me since I became a mother and I find that really really helpful especially when Sometimes I hate them When they're throwing tantrums. So it's a love-hating and I regulate myself with hugging The other thing would be my own body so I like to do intuitive singing and intuitive movement and This can be done in any part of the day It doesn't even have to sound nice because it's just a release of your your true energies just thing simple toning like Oh And it can go into a little melody that you can repeat throughout the day and Movement could be just the simple Moving of your fingers doing the energies around you imagining if Energy is tangible.  You can do it alone or with your kids and The third tool that I love using would be essential eyes so like lavender Even orange So this are my happy tools I inhale then I put a drop in my palms and Rub it and hear the sense and sometimes when I'm when I have more time I imagine How do I leave out the essence of lavender just calming and soothing How do I leave out the essence of orange which is happy and creative? So I use orange a lot in my book writing That's a small ritual before writing Yeah, so this are the top tools that I use in my daily gentleness to keep That's wonderful. That's that's great and You work with clients one-to-one And when you work with clients, I wonder I mean I could see people calling you the gentleness coach or You know the gentle healer or something like that because I think your presence itself Is a wonderful reminder to the client You know When they meet with you, it's a reminder throughout the rest of the week that ah, that's right This is this is a way that I can be and so I think just your presence itself. This is healing for people Do you do you work with clients on finding their own gentleness tools? I imagine different so for example somebody who doesn't have kids or somebody who lives alone Unfortunately wouldn't be able to to use the the tool of hugging But they might have something they might have something else, you know in their life that That that could be part of their gentleness toolkit. Yeah Yeah, so essential eyes are a really great tool and they are more much more easily available now and The other thing that I do is I'm starting to do more of is customers customized healing meditations so I mentioned their name in the meditation and I I channel some words for them to remind themselves like a mantra and Then healing exploration So the healing energies are really embedded as I do the recording specifically for that person That's great and Do you use your intuitive singing with your clients or in the meditations? Not yet. I'm going to learn. This is something new that I do for myself and with my kids. So Just try to expose myself more to the free videos to see if Clients are wanted in their videos. I Think that would be yeah, I think that's worth trying. It's that's a unique part of what you do and You have a nice voice. So I think that that would be an experience for people Anything else you want to say about How you work with clients anything any other thoughts on that Okay So it is very important for my clients to be Brave enough to feel what they feel so That is the crucial part of the healing and I always check in with them how they feel about this particular challenge that's troubling them Before the session during the session after the session so The feeling will guide them into having more clarity No, I don't really Tell them what to do This is Some people are not okay with it some love it because it helps them tune in to their own intuition So Yeah, it depends if That's That's attractive a way to work with me. Yeah and people can find you Find how to work with you on your website, which is www.bingeshuanghealer.com and I'll spell that it's B-i-n-g-z H-u-a-n-g Healer calm Bing's Huang healer calm and of course I will put a link in the notes of the video So people can click on it easily. You also have a Facebook Page that you update with content So I will be sure to link that and you have a you have an online a free newsletter Yeah, email newsletter called the online healing sanctuary It's actually a platform. So great. It's something like a cost that I update regularly with My free meditations podcast interviews short quotes insights Wonderful great great so people can check that out on your website, too Or they can book a one-to-one energy healing session with you So beings, thank you so much for your work and Let's talk a little bit about The fact that you're part of the authentic business community ABC For those who don't know what ABC is it is a You know, we we just started this as a business referral network for fellow Authentic business owners people who are creating a livelihood from their their own services programs and products and You are one of the first Members and advisors in ABC, which means that People can inquire with you about ABC. They can join the network through you It is free. I should say it is free to join ABC There's no cost to join and in fact when you join ABC through beans you get a gift for joining through her and You can read more about it and maybe things we can put a link To your ABC page on on the on the video notes so people can look look at that, too Do you want to mention what your free your your gift is for joining ABC through you? Yeah, it's the 60-minute one-to-one healing session via zoom and You can use that time to talk about your issues We can do some unwinding and if there's any goal you like to move towards you. We can unwind those blocks as well So Yeah, that's very generous Because of course you usually charge for your energy healing sessions and so if anybody's interested in being part of a business referral Business referral and support network. It's free to join, but you do have some commitments of Finding simple ways to support each other Consider joining ABC through beans and you get this free one-to-one energy healing session with her. So that's wonderful So beings is there anything as we close this Conversation anything else you want to say about gentleness? What can we kind of end the conversation with? I Just like to share that to be brave to be you Even without your overwhelm It's you're more than just your overwhelm Yeah, a lot more than that and when you embrace of you you shine and that's what we really need from everyone So yes, I agree. Thank you so much for for that encouragement and for your work. So thank you so much beings Thank you, judge