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J. H. Levy

Socialism is essentially inimical to family life, which it regards as a bourgeois institution — to use its own favorite anathema. Socialism would make motherhood a State business or profession, would pay women for this sexual function, and deprive fathers of all status or recognition.

J. H. Levy, The Outcome of Individualism, Third Edition (1892); detail of a portrait, above, courtesy (by Creative Commons license) of the National Portrait Gallery, London, after a portrait by Joseph Solomon (photograph, 1901), © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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