eing one of the greatest Socialist books
ever written.

Frederick Engel's "Origin of the Family," a work that has made its
author famous among Socialists on both sides of the Atlantic, contains
the following statement relative to free-love:

"These peculiarities that were stamped upon the face of monogamy by
its rise through property relations will decidedly vanish, namely
the supremacy of men and the indissolubility of marriage.... If
marriage founded on love is alone moral, then it follows that
marriage is moral only as long as love lasts. The duration of an
attack of individual sex love varies considerably according to
individual disposition, especially in men. A positive cessation of
fondness or its replacement by a new passionate love makes a
separation a blessing for both parties and for society. But
humanity will be spared the useless wading through the mire of a
divorce case." ["The Origin of the Family," by Fredrick Engels,
page 99 of the 1907 translation into English by Untermann.]

"The Comrade," New York, November, 1902, thus commends Engel's book:
"One of the most important issues of that excellent Standard Socialist
Series published by Chas. H. Kerr and Company is 'The Origin of the
Family,' by Fredrick Engels, now for the first time translated into
English by Ernest Untermann. This book, first published in 1884, has
been translated into almost every European language and has long been
regarded as one of the classics of Socialist philosophical literature."

"The Call," New York, February 27, 1910, deems "The Origin of the
Family" worthy of editorial comment: "The one book that contains in
small compass what every woman ought to know is Fredrick Engel's 'The
Origin of the Family.' Every Socialist woman should become a book agent
to sell this book."

"The International Socialist Review," October, 1902, expressed its
admiration of Engel's work by stating that "this book has long been
known as one of the great Socialist classics and has been translated
into almost every other language than English.... The book is really one
of the two or three great Socialist classics; and now that it is in
English, it must find a place in the library of everyone who hopes to
master the real fundamental philosophy underlying Socialism."

"The Origin of the Family," notwithstanding[20] the fact that it
contains matter too foul to comment on, for example a certain