The Broken Record
The conclusive objection to the political enfranchisement of women is, that it would weaken and finally break up and destroy the Christian family. The social unit is the family, not the individual; and the greatest danger to American society is, that we are rapidly becoming a nation of isolated individuals, without family ties or affections. The family has already been much weakened, and is fast disappearing. …and when the family goes, the nation goes too, or ceases to be worth preserving.
Orestes A. Brownson, Catholic World, May 1869 (Rothenberg, p. 462)
Rothenberg, P. (2004) Race, Class and Gender in the United States. New York:Worth Publishers.
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