comparison
that is made on page 39, was listed with the books sold at the National
Office of the Socialist Party, and at Chas. H. Kerr and Company, the
largest Socialist publishing company in the United States.

Ernest Untermann, the American Socialist who translated Engel's work
into English, writes on page 7 of the preface of the 1907 edition: "The
monogamic family, so far from being a divinely instituted union of
souls, is seen to be the product of a series of material, and in the
last analysis, of the most sordid motives."

Rives La Monte, in "Socialism Positive and Negative," tells his readers
that "from the point of view of this Socialist materialism, the
monogamous family, the present economic unit of society, ceases to be a
divine institution, and becomes the historical product of certain
definite economic conditions. In the judgment of such Socialists as
Fredrick Engels and August Bebel, we shall probably remain monogamous,
but monogamy will cease to be compulsorily permanent." ["Socialism,
Positive and Negative," by Rives La Monte, page 98 of the 1907 edition.]

In the "International Socialist Review," February, 1909, there appears
on page 628 a notice which reads as follows:

"The 'Review' lately returned to a contributor a clever and
readable article in which he emphasized certain absurdities and
miseries of the present marriage system. His letter in the reply to
us raises some interesting questions, and we are glad to publish
it: ... 'It is disappointing to be advised to frankly discuss
subjects of such importance as religion and marriage only in hushed
whispers behind closed doors. In the fear of offending conservative
prejudice on these topics, some Socialists become more conservative
than the bourgeois themselves.... Of course, the main stream and
most important phase of Socialism is the political-economic
agitation, but at the same time the Socialist movement inevitably
brings into being, at least for a great part of its adherents, a
new culture, a new literature, a new art, a new attitude toward sex
relations and religion and individual freedom, a new conception of
life as a whole. In face of this fact it is sickening to see
individuals, whom one knows to be atheists, defending Socialism as
the will of God and the fulfilment of Christianity; and other
individuals, whom one knows to be free-lovers, going out of