[22] (Mrs. Parsons'.) Dr. Alice Drysdale Vickery gave striking expression to one phase of this subject at a recent discussion of the London Sociological Society. She urged that _without economic independence_ the individuality of woman could not exercise that natural selective power in the choice of a mate which was probably a main factor in the spiritual evolution of the race. _The American Journal of Sociology_, Sept., 1905. Page 279. [23] (LaMonte's.) No wonder such a startling hypothesis aroused the ire of our clerical friends. [24] (LaMonte's.) It is worthy of note that this suggestion of a serious modification of marriage _under existing economic conditions_ comes characteristically, not from a Socialist, but from the wife of a Republican member of Congress and the daughter of a distinguished financier. [25] (Mrs. Parsons'.) Through the discovery of certain and innocuous methods of preventing conception. The application of this knowledge would have to be encouraged by public opinion in cases where conception would result in a degenerate offspring. Public opinion would also have to endorse the segregation of persons tainted with communicable sexual disease. [26] Berlin cablegram in the New York Sun of Dec. 7, 1906. [27] "Origin of the Family, &c.," Pages 91, 92. See also Bebel, "Woman under Socialism," Page 122, and elsewhere. [28] "Origin of the Family &c." Pages 208, 209. [29] On the existence of organized societies without a co-ercive State, see also, "Ancient Society." Lewis H. Morgan, Chicago, 1907. [30] "Origin of the Family &c." Pages 211, 212. [31] "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific." F. Engels, Chicago, 1905. Pages 76, 77. [32] "The Economic Interpretation of History." Edwin R. A. Seligman, New York, 1903. Pages 105 and 109. [33] "The People's Marx." Gabriel Deville, New York, 1900. Pages 18, 19. [34] Cartoonists are warned that this idea is protected by copyright. [35] The other day I chanced upon a pamphlet by one Oscar Lovell Triggs of Chicago. It bore the title, "William Morris, Craftsman, Writer and Social Reformer." In turning over its pages I was somewhat startled to read: "'Scientific' socialism he never understood or advocated." And again further on my eye fell on this gem: "It is apparent that Morris's 'Socialism' is poetic and not scientific socialism." This pamphlet should have a place of honor in every doll's library. [36] In "Sartor Resartus." [37] In fact, Professor Veblen has shown that for the last quarter of a century the commonest cause of seasons of "ordinary prosperity" has been war. See "The Theory of Business Enterprise." Pages 250-1. [38] From "Art and Socialism," a pamphlet that is now rare. THE BIOGENETIC LAW