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The influence of childhood has transformed mere animal attraction
into unselfish affection. It has substituted family life for
savage life. The interests of childhood demand that marriage and
its responsibilities be held sacred.
Duty to future generations demands that divorce be made difficult
and considered a misfortune.
Marriage, brought into the world through the influence of
children, should be dissolved only with due regard for the
interests of children. ----
An unhappy marriage is earth's worst affliction. Quite true.
But it is not affliction wasted.
Examples are needed to warn the young against the matrimonial
recklessness which underlies most unhappy marriages.
Unhappy wives and husbands are human light-houses--lonely, but
useful.
If a gentle little Alderney calf should marry a sleek young zebra
and afterward get kicked to death for her pains, we should all
sympathize with her. But we should expect other mild-eyed
Alderneys after that to beware of zebras.
As a matter of fact, this present divorce talk, which sets the
good to fluttering, really interests a very unimportant class.
The man who spends his life spending what he didn't earn, feeding
his physical senses, who goes from rum to the races, from the
races to the opera, and from the opera to roulette, wears out his
nervous sensations.
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