INTRODUCTORY 5 



that the same law which made man from a uni- 

 cellular organism has to be followed by humanity 

 to arrive at unlimited or limitless perfection, which, 

 in the ultimate term, is the production of the 

 greatest concordance of the external with the in- 

 ternal of which Herbert Spencer speaks. Then 

 this era of peace and justice of which all men 

 dream nowadays will be realised. 



It is easily understood, and it has been repeated 

 a thousand times, as it is the supreme aspiration of 

 sociology, that a change in the economic basis of 

 life, property, would immediately involve a complete 

 transformation of actual society, and all institutions 

 from that of the family to the State would be trans- 

 formed. 



The true basis of the family of the future will be 

 love, which is the natural medium of selection in 

 the human species. 



Woman has a great part to play in the perfection 

 of the race. She will work for progress more than 

 man, because she, with the instinct of maternity 

 and the feeling of responsibility, which are keener 

 and deeper than in man, will be the one to found 

 the race of the future. 



All societies have liked to enslave woman, 

 ignoring her true significance ; and present society, 

 like that of the past, not only persists in its error, 



