[201] I must here call attention to the fact that the celebrated philosopher Eugen Dühring, in his notable work, “The Value of Life,” pp. 155-158 (Leipzig, 1881, third edition), made a violent attack on the coercive marriage system, and demanded on ethical grounds a transformation of our amatory life in the direction of freedom and of personal love.
[202] Edward Carpenter, “Love’s Coming-of-Age,” third edition, London, 1902.
[203] Ellen Key, “Love and Marriage,” translated into German by Francis Maro (Berlin, 1904).
[204] Anton Nyström, “The Sexual Life and its Laws,” pp. 244-247 (Berlin, 1904).
[205] The speeches on this occasion were published by Helene Stöcker in her pamphlet, “The Association for the Protection of Mothers” (No. 4 of “Modern Questions of the Day,” edited by Dr. Hans Landsberg; Berlin, 1905).
[206] Unfortunately, Ruth Bré, who has played such a leading part in the history of the movement for the protection of mothers and for sexual reform, has recently gone her own way, and has founded an association of her own for the protection of mothers, which we may hope will soon be reabsorbed into the general Association. Above all, in such a province of reform as this, open as it is to attacks of every kind, unity is essential.
[207] Helene Stöcker, “Die Liebe und die Frauen”—“Love and Women” (Minden, 1906).
[208] Fr. Naumann, “Women in the New Economic Life,” published in Mutterschutz, 1906, No. 4, pp. 133-149.
[209] W. Borgius, “Mutterschafts-Rentenversicherung,” ibid., pp. 149-154.
[210] Lily Braun, “Die Mutterschaftsversicherung,” ibid., 1906, Nos. 1-3, pp. 18-24, 69-76, 110-124.