sexuelle a rebours.) The second is, that 

 capitalist industrial methods are crushing the 

 family out of existence, and whatever family 

 theory may or may not be most in accordance 

 with socialist conceptions, as a matter of 

 actual fact, capitalism and family life cannot 

 flourish together. 



Ferri has conclusively shown that the natural 

 basis of the family is menaced by the motives 

 and the conditions of the capitalist regime. 

 When that regime has been supplanted by 

 another such as the socialist contemplates, the 

 family will flourish on congenial soil and in 

 pure air, and its moral and sociological value 

 will decide what laws are to govern its form 

 and determine its stability. Taking these 

 things into consideration, one may, with 

 formidable array of argument, contend that 

 so far from the marriage bond being weakened 

 by socialism, the supreme moral and 

 sociological value of the family organisation 

 will be then so clear, that the secular state 

 will frown upon divorce as much as the 

 Catholic Church does at the present moment. 

 The chief value of this study, however, is 

 the claim that it so successfully makes, that 

 the socialist conception -of human progress 

 and of the social conditions which are to be 

 the characteristics of the next, the socialist, 

 stage in that evolution, is not only in 

 accordance with the processes which Darwin 

 proved to be the method of the development 

 of life from the moneron to man, but is 

 those very processes themselves applied to 

 human society with such modifications as are 

 necessitated by the fact that they now 

 relate to life which can consciously adapt 

 itself to its -circumstances and aid natural 

 evolution by economising in experimental 

 waste. Thus, socialism is naught but Dar- 



