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 THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM

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The Mask of Anarchy, P. B. Shelley.

MIL REICH, writing in 1908, said (Woman through the Ages, vol. ii. p. 247): " The women of the East lie under an adamant yoke of complete severity. It is in the West that the only movement comes, a movement—at its mistaken best—which makes a crusade against prostitution, alcoholism, and war; all of which must exist as hideous necessities and which, if they could be swept away, would, in their disappearance, utterly upset the balance of 117