Isola; or, The disinherited: A revolt for woman and all the disinherited

Chapter 2: FIRST PREFACE.

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The drama dramatizes a ruler's revolt against entrenched legal, ecclesiastical, and social injustices, advocating reason, equality, and compassion for all living beings. It centers on a determined queen who interrogates thought, memory, and authority while exposing the harms of superstition and discriminatory laws, especially those limiting women. Through passionate speeches, moral debates, and dramatic confrontation, the play calls for rational reform, truth over imposture, and the extension of justice to rulers, subjects, and the animal world, blending philosophical reflection with political and ethical advocacy.

FIRST PREFACE.

Isola demands the practice of the true laws of the only true God.

The drama demands Justice for all living things, from Ruler to Subject, of either sex, and for the brute Creation.

It advocates the Reign of Truth and the destruction of Humbug.

Look at the World and what the latter has produced!

Let Truth take the place of The Lie.

Let rational laws in Church and State prevail, fashioned in accordance with the laws of the Universe.

Shall Progress be deterred by antiquated ideas and opinions founded on imperfect Knowledge?

No. The antiquated ideas and opinions must be swept away. The result will be Freedom.

Florence Dixie.

1877.