CHAPTER VII
MARRIAGE, MATERNITY
It is quite impossible at this time, nor would it be desirable, if possible, to lay down any hard and fast line as to the development of the details of Socialist organisation. Broad principles are all that can with any degree of confidence be spoken about. The details will arrange themselves, as the time arrives when it becomes
necessary to settle them. It is not possible, therefore, to prophesy in what exact, special, and particular way the State will exercise control over those of its citizens wishful of entering upon the state of matrimony. That it will interfere to prevent marriage in many cases there is no question. The Socialist community will recognise to a far greater extent than is recognised at the present time, despite the cant about “woman’s sphere,” and the hypocritical concern for its protection, the power for good or evil of the
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