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from oblivion and applied the new discoveries of 

 Morgan concerning these primitive " gentes " 

 with telling effect to further historical research. 

 In Engels' " The Origin of the Family, Private 

 Property, and the State," the connection between 

 the dissolution of the primitive sex-organizations 

 and the rise of private ownership of the essential 

 means of production was laid bare, and the origin 

 of the modern state as a result of this process 

 clearly proven. And the socialist Cunow, in his 

 " Sex-Organizations of Australian Aborigines," 

 supplemented and perfected Morgan's work by 

 additional studies. 



Again, when bourgeois female emancipation 

 started its planless crusade and hoped for the 

 support of the equally planless bourgeois science, 

 it was the socialist Bebel, who in his " Women 

 in the Past, Present, and Future," demonstrated 

 the weakness of bourgeois science and reminded 

 bourgeois women that female emancipation was 

 a process of evolution and could be accomplished 

 only through the proletarian class-struggle. 



And finally, when the bourgeois psychologists 

 kept turning around their own axis in the vain 

 endeavor to find a monistic formulation for the 

 new psychological facts, it was the socialist En- 

 gels, who in his " Anti-Diihring " showed that 



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