He then thinks that he is unhappily married. He has possibly
driven his wife to being seven kinds of a fool.
But that is not her fault.
A man who marries a woman undertakes to make her happy and keep
her busy. If he keeps his contract, she will keep hers.
If he fails, he has no right to experiment on another
unfortunate. The divorce class is a self-indulgent, malformed
class, not worth notice. ----
Professor Cope, an earnest man and serious thinker, believed that
marriages should be contracted on probation--say for five years,
with the right on both sides to refuse a renewal.
Theoretically, this would be beautiful. It would make courtship
permanent, abolish curl-papered wives in the morning, and tipsy,
bragging husbands at night.
But it wouldn't work. It would be all right for women. They are
only too willing to be faithful and permanent.
But men cannot be trusted. The animal in them, so essential long
ago, when the race was struggling for a foothold, has not been
obliterated. They have got to be MADE responsible and HELD
responsible. ----
As a matter of fact, there really is no marriage or divorce
problem which sensible beings need consider.
At present men are not good enough to be trusted with liberal
marriage or divorce laws.
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