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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

CHAPTER XIII
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That slavery may not exist people must refuse to enjoy the labor of others, and look upon it as a shameful act and as a sin.
*A suburb of Moscow.
"Actually, this is what happens.

They abolish the external form, they suppress the formal sales of slaves, and then they imagine and assure others that slavery is abolished.

They are unwilling to see that it still exists, since people, as before, like to profit by the labor of others, and think it good and just.

This being given, there will always be found beings stronger or more cunning than others to profit thereby.
The same thing happens in the emancipation of woman.

At bottom feminine servitude consists entirely in her assimilation with a means of pleasure.


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