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Civilization (n.) raises every vice that barbarism practises simply to a compound, equivocal, hypocritical mode of existence — and no one is punished more for keeping woman a slave than man himself.
Emancipation (n.) still has its third and last phase ahead: ending wage slavery by making labor no longer a commodity.
Marriage (n.) works like grammar, where two negatives make an affirmative: it lets two prostitutions pass for a virtue.
Seduction (n.) is a credit to the seducer, good tone; but the girl who kills her child to hide her dishonour is a monster — the vicious circle every civilised mechanism describes.
The Women's liberation (n.) is the natural measure of general emancipation: in woman's relation to man, of the weak to the strong, the victory of human nature over brutality is most evident.