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The father can no longer control the education of his children; the
State takes charge of it. The father is no longer master of his
property; that portion he can dispose of by donation or testament is
of the smallest; we prescribe an equal and forced division of
property. - Finally we preach adoption, we efface bastardy, we confer
on children born of free love, or of a despotic will, the same rights
as those of legitimate children. In short, we break that sacred
circle, that exclusive group, that aristocratic organization which,
under the name of the family, was created out of pride and egoism.[92]
- Henceforth, affection and obedience will no longer be frittered
away; the miserable supports to which they have clung like ivy vines,
castes, churches, corporations, provinces, communes or families, are
ruined and rooted out; on the ground which is thus leveled, the State
alone remains standing, and it alone offers any point of adhesion; all
these vines are about to twine themselves in on trunk about the great
central column.
VIII.
Indoctrination of mind and intellect. - Civil religion.- National
education. -Egalitarian moral standards..- Obligatory civism.
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