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by military conquest, by unscrupulous specu- 

 lation, or by the favouritism of sovereigns ; 

 but it is in every case always independent of 

 any exertion, of any work useful to society, on 

 the part of the heir, who often dissipates his 

 fortune in idleness, or in the vortex of a life 

 as empty in reality as it is brilliant in 

 appearance. 



And when we have not to consider a fortune 

 due to inheritance, we are faced with wealth 

 due to fraud. Without speaking for the 

 moment of the economic organisation, whose 

 mechanism Karl Marx has revealed to us, 

 which, even without fraud, normally allows 

 the capitalist or the landlord to live on his 

 revenues without working, it is incontestable 

 that the fortunes which have been made or 

 which have increased the most rapidly under 

 our eyes, cannot be the fruits of honest work. 

 The really honest workman, however inde- 

 fatigable and economical he may be, if he 



But if it is scientifically certain that woman represents 

 an inferior degree of biological evolution, and that she is 

 placed even by her physio-psychical characteristics 

 between the child and the adult male, it does not 

 follow from this that the socialist conclusions in what 

 concerns the woman question are false. 



Quite the contrary. Society ought to put woman, as a 

 human being and as a creator of men more worthy 

 consequently of love and respect in a better legal and 

 moral condition than she is in at present too often a 

 beast of burden or object of luxury. Similarly when from 

 the economic point of view special measures are claimed 

 to-day in favour of women, consideration is only paid to 

 their special physio-psychical conditions, whilst the present 

 economic individualism wears them out in manufactories 

 and rice plantations. Socialism, on the contrary, de- 

 mands from them only professional, scientific or muscular 

 work which is in keeping with sacred motherhood. 



