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Rh support and education; in which the State institutions, in the well-apprehended interest of society itself, as model institutions of education and culture, are accessible to all alike, free of charge, etc.

Only in such a state of society true marriages, which now are accidental exceptions, will be the rule, and "divorce," which now causes so much trouble in the world, will be an unknown thing. In the absence of the hitherto prevailing considerations of the "consequences," especially of the economic embarrassments, complete liberty to look for and find the true object of their affections will make women incapable of still allowing themselves to be dehumanized as prostitutes, either in relations of "contract" or in maisons de joie, and men, in the companionship of free women, will look back with disgust to the times when, by the aid of money or force, they trod the dignity of half the human race under their feet in order to unfeelingly satisfy mere sensual lust in the arms of an unfeeling being.