The fact that utilitarianism does not involve political or religious convictions, or a list of commandments, appealed to the
irreligious Singer, who as a
child had refused to have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
When we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a
child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and
irreligious a state of opinion.