"Mr. Massey has been too fearless and too persistent a reformer to be appreciated in his time, but his words and worth will be treasured in the brighter day, when we shall see dawning a social order which shall end enforced "slavery for man, prostitution for woman, and ignorance for the child." -B.O. Flower Gerald Massey, Poet, Prophet, and Mystic (1895) by B. O. Flowers is at once a biography of the 19th century poet and a tribute which extolls Massey's writing and his intellectual contributions, quoting liberally from the poet's own writing. Among Flowers's strongest arguments for admiring Massey is that "Many of Massey's poems are as applicable to the problems now confronting us as if called forth by present-day conditions in our own land."