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168 Let freedom prove no man's inalienable right! Every
 * one who can tyrannize, let him tyrannize to his
 * satisfaction!

Let none but infidels be countenanced! Let the eminence of meanness, treachery, sarcasm,
 * hate, greed, indecency, impotence, lust, be taken
 * for granted above all! Let writers, judges, governments,
 * households, religions, philosophies, take
 * such for granted above all!

Let the worst men beget children out of the worst
 * women!

Let priests still play at immortality! Let Death be inaugurated! Let nothing remain upon the earth except the ashes of
 * teachers, artists, moralists, lawyers, and learned
 * and polite persons!

Let him who is without my poems be assassinated! Let the cow, the horse, the camel, the garden-bee—
 * Let the mud-fish, the lobster, the mussel, eel, the
 * sting-ray, and the grunting pig-fish—Let these,
 * and the like of these, be put on a perfect equality
 * with man and woman!

Let churches accommodate serpents, vermin, and the
 * corpses of those who have died of the most filthy
 * of diseases!

Let marriage slip down among fools, and be for none
 * but fools!

Let men among themselves talk and think obscenely
 * of women! and let women among themselves
 * talk and think obscenely of men!

Let every man doubt every woman! and let every
 * woman trick every man!