Johnny Monologue from Windows

From Windows by John Galsworthy

male · defiant · 52 sec

Yes; but why do we keep contracts when we can break them with advantage and impunity? (MR MARCH: But do we keep them?) Well--say we do; otherwise you'll admit there isn't such a thing as civilisation at all. But why do we keep them? For instance, why don't we make Mary and Mother work for us like Kafir women? We could lick them into it. Why did we give women the vote? Why free slaves; why anything decent for the little and weak? (MR MARCH: Well, you might say it was convenient for people living in communities.) I don't think it's convenient at all. I should like to make Mary sweat. Why not jungle law, if there's nothing in chivalry.

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