"Eros is a great leveller. Perhaps the true Democracy rests, more firmly than anywhere else, on a sentiment which easily passes the bounds of class and caste, and unites in the closest affection the most estranged ranks of society. It is noticeable how often Uranians of good position and breeding are drawn to rougher types, as of manual workers, and frequently very permanent alliances grow up in this way, which although not publicly acknowledged have a decided influence on social institutions, customs and political tendencies"
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The Intermediate Sex (1908), pp. 114-115
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Edward Carpenter
1864 – 1933
Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher.
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