SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



and gradually the women and the majority of 

 men become economically dependent on those 

 who have profited from the disintegration of the 

 old groups and made themselves masters of the 

 formerly common requirements of life. Female 

 descent gives way to male lineage in the interest 

 of inheritance of private property. 



Thus " civilization " comes in by a suppres- 

 sion of the fundamental condition of all social 

 morality and right, the common ownership of 

 the earth, of its products, and of the tools so- 

 cially acquired by the evolution and co-operation 

 of countless generations. Individualism and an- 

 archy now take the place of the spirit of com- 

 munity and natural order. New economic and 

 political forces grow up, which baffle all attempts 

 of man to control them, because he obstinately 

 declines to demolish the soil out of which they 

 grow, the private ownership of the earth and of 

 social wealth. 



Economic usurpation begets wars for terri- 

 torial expansion and slavery of prisoners of 

 war. Slavery begets more wealth and leads 

 to the introduction of a coercive power, the 

 state, which gradually overawes not only the 

 captives, but also the poor members of the 

 same tribe. Political privileges are reserved 



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