Book/Printed Material Socialism, feminism, and suffragism : the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
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Image 41 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 44 “The last sentence caused a sensation. Professional ethics require that the word schematic be always added to every diagram which the author has retouched or invented; whereas Haeckel deliberately left his…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 42 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 45 millions of years would not give them a beautiful world like ours.’”—Lord Kelvin. “Two important deductions may be drawn from reading the opponents of Lord Kelvin: the first is, that while…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 43 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 46 agnosticism of Huxley, the materialism of Tyndall, the atheism of Clifford, the skepticism of Fitzjames Stephen, the positivism of Frederic Harrison and pantheism of Haeckel to understand that science must perforce…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 44 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 47 Such a theory put forth as “scientific” knowledge would be a violative of the truth as to call the incantations and charms of soothsayers and alchemists the “science of chemistry.” These…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 45 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 49 V. SOCIALISM ATHEISTICAL The doctrine of the Mosaic and Christian religions assert that man is a special creature, created by the Almighty with attributes in his nature which make him a…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 46 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 50 at the same time for him to be a Socialist, and finally if he perseveres in studying such a doctrine, he will find that his fire of Christian faith will be…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 47 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 51 it desires precisely that humanity should have in itself its own ‘terrestrial paradise,’ without having to wait for it in a ‘something beyond’ which, to say the least, is very problematical.”—Professor…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 48 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 52 religion would be no respecter of churches in any country where Socialism may obtained political power. This fact is so well known in France that the Evangelical churches of that country…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 49 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 53 Shaw meant what he wrote; yet the critics will continue to treat his utterance as one of bernard Shaw's “delightfully witty paradoxes.” My friend meant just what he said; yet Salvation…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 50 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 54 “We find the priest licking the hands of the powerful and combining with them for the purpose of exploiting the worker. These last were the supposed followers of the lowly Nazarene…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 51 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 55 doctrine of divine providence. Believers in divine providence are well represented by the Hindoo who, in his lesson on English composition spoke of his father as having “died according to the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 52 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 57 CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM (A Misnomer) There are a few persons in the Socialistic movement, or rather on the fringe of the Socialist movement, having never been accepted into full confidential fellowship with…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 53 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 58 tucked away on one side socialistic Atheism and on the other side Christian Belief.—They are like Eggleston's silly boy inmate of the poor house, “ with potato on one side of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 54 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 59 against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy, and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 55 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 60 greatest of social evils, but a system that by its fundamental principles, vitiates human thoughts, and distracts the attention of mankind from the natural and actual. Against these, therefore we fight.”…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 56 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 61 are clanged in its face, and its mind is fed on the theological garbage of the Middle Ages. In the school, the press, and especially the pulpit, ideas are gravely presented…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 57 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 62 “The Roman Catholic, which was the first established Christian Church that became orthodox, adopted a ritual and promulgated dogmas. The various protestant religions each represent a religions revolution in which new…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 58 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 63 Socialists—are all more or less avowed atheists; and what is true of the more notable men of the party is almost equally true of the rank and file the world over.”—“Socialism…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 59 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 64 With these brutally expressed views of Socialism from high authorities against religion and the morals inculcated by religion, it would seem impossible for professed Christian lambs to lie down with atheistic…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 60 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 65 “It is high time we Socialists dropped our timidity about attacking those priests and ministers, who under the guise of religion and wrapped in its sacred folds so underhandingly attack and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 61 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 66 Paganism; as the religion of serfage was Catholic Christianity of Sacredotalism; as the religion of Capitalism is Protestant Christianity or Biblical dogma, so too, the religion of collective and co-operative industry…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 62 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 67 VI. SOCIALISM WITHOUT MORALS. It is impossible for men, when constituting a society where selfish and corrupt human nature is predominant, to formulate any code of morals which will be workable…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 63 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 68 Secondly, they affirm that man was created by a process of material evolution, and while they admit he is a superior animal, they deny he was ever given an especial gift…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 64 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 69 undergoing transformation and all are relative to their respective historical and material environments. “To slay one's parents is one of the greatest of crimes in Europe and America: it is, on…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 65 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 70 effect in all communities in which private property prevailed, thus: Thou shalt not steal. Is this commandment, the, an eternal commandment? By no means. In a society in which the motive…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 66 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 71 are changeable, and for this reason Socialist approve slavery. Question —Does the intellectual class among Socialist want a slave class for their use? “Slavery produced a leisure class which could give…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 67 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 72 first completely deposed the moral ideal as the directing factor of the social evolution, and has taught us to deduce our social aims solely from the knowledge of the material foundations,”—Ethics…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 68 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 73 varying codes of ethics the world has seen. For it must never be forgotten that ideas of right and wrong are not absolute, but relative; not fixed, but fluid, changing with…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 69 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 74 THE SOCIALISTS’ COMMANDMENTS. I. I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange God before me. The Socialist in his pride denies a Creator, or a First Cause, and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 70 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 75 V. Thou shalt not kill. As there is no God in the Socialist economy, God could not have given this or any other commandment, and it would not be valid except…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 71 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 76 IX. Thou shalt not covet. Covetousness and envy are the great characteristics of Socialism. Their main propaganda is the teaching of “Class Consciousness” and “Class Hatred” and they instil a desire…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 72 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 79 VII. SOCIALISM AN ENEMY OF THE FAMILY—FAVORS FREE LOVE The family in all Christian Countries is the unit of Society. The family is created by the marriage of one man with…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 73 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 80 Socialist and Feminist writers have denounced marriage in unmeasured terms and in the vilest language. They claim that under the form of matrimony, the wife is made the “sex slave” of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 74 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 81 In fact the bolder Socialists advocate Free Love, the control of births, and other practices which are abhorrent to all persons who have been brought up in a Christian atmosphere: “Abolition…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 75 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 82 “Socialist parties do not attack Religion, the Family, or the State. But Socialist philosophy proves conclusively that the realization of the positive political and economic ideals of Socialism involves the atrophy…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 76 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 83 Socialist Leagues among their students. Governors of States, Judges and Publicists point out a present disregard of law, and disrespect for government. Do such college faculties comprehend that their sufferance of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 77 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 84 “Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives.…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 78 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 85 in its foundation, and intend to change the private household into Socialistic Industries, and put the care and custody of children on the State, by taking the same from their parents.…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 79 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 86 commodities for sale. It is not crystallized and permanent, but, like all other institutions, fluid and subject to change. With the change in its economic basis, the code of sexual morality…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
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Image 80 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 87 those of society, the code of the future against that of the past.”—Ellen Key, “Love and Marriage,” page 54. “Here there is no solution except the freedom of woman—which means, of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1915
About this Item
Title
- Socialism, feminism, and suffragism : the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle
Summary
- This book equates feminism and woman suffrage with both socialism and atheism. According to the author, feminism and the enfranchisement of women will destroy the family. The book also suggests that pregnant women who vote run the risk of bearing "physically imperfect or idiotic" children.
Names
- Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal, 1854-
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Chicago : American Publishing Company, [c1915]
Headings
- - Women and socialism
- - Women--Suffrage
- - Feminism
Medium
- 3 p.l., 9-301 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- HX546 .H8
- JK1881 .N357 sec. V, no. 27 Another copy. Bookplate inside front cover: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
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- 15016027
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- Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Hubbard, Benjamin Vestal
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)