Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) by Enrico Ferri
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she is too often a beast of burden or an object of luxury. In the same
way when, from the economic point of view, we demand at the present day special measures in behalf of women, we simply take into consideration their special physio-psychical conditions. The present economic individualism exhausts them in factories and rice-fields; socialism, on the contrary, will require from them only such professional, scientific or muscular labor as is in perfect harmony with the sacred function of maternity. KULISCIOFF, _Il monopolio dell'uomo_, Milan, 1892, 2d edition.--MOZZONI, _I socialisti e l'emancipazione della donna_, Milan, 1891. [5] B. MALON, _Le Socialisme Integral_, 2 vol., Paris, 1892. [6] ZULIANI, _Il privilegio della salute_, Milan, 1893. [7] LETOURNEAU, _Passé, présent et avenir du travail_, in _Revue mensuelle de l'école d'anthropologie_, Paris, June 15, 1894. [8] M. Zerboglio has very justly pointed out that individualism acting without the pressure of external sanction and by the simple internal impulse toward good (rightness)--this is the distant ideal of Herbert Spencer--can be realized only after a phase of collectivism, during which the individual activity and instincts can be disciplined into social solidarity and weaned from the essentially anarchist individualism of our times when every one, if he is clever enough to "slip through the meshes of the penal code" can do what he pleases without any regard to his fellows. [9] "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp," is the way Robert |
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