New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-03
M4RRTIAG SCIENTIFICALLY.
CHOOSING WIFE OF METEOROLOGICAL PRINCE
PLrs

Sir George Campbel's proposal ut the British
Association 10 superseie 10 e-mszng As preliminary
suon for improving the phy-iIue and the morale OF
the human race would have beeo somewhat more
sprcic nrst getting OF the deeproot.d tendency
in young people TO spoil these beautiful plans by failing
n love without paving tae least regard 70 them, and
next Tor Determining what the COMPUTATIONS Of
should We through whose unou tho nopiest offspring
might expected There Is the double difficulty IN
his proposa--lrst. that ans young " woman who
tons OF approDra,euess .0r >r George Campoeis ends
were fudliel would be lrg whom one OF any secse
would be disposed to marry; and next that even
II mar, however wi,e could Judge OF the
moral suitability Of one nature % another AZ al better
than 1t determined by the comparative accident
either OF youthful PASSION Or u tie pa entail wishes
JUS tna,ne tie effect )u any young man or oman
po-ses-in spirit ana any healthy Instincts % benz
addressed by antAr0pOiosical Tapa or ANNA IN
such IS Sir George Campbell might perhaps APP
ErOve-tAus for example:
Lam bound to warn you, my dear boy that your ply
suue, hough excellent tie wh0r, Is weak, at All,
"a liability 10 sluggish liver; and wat therefore You
~nose h say nv siros Of ht sI in her AMI,
Beside. this you must hs aware that sweet tempered
as YOU are. you a little disposed to evty AMI too
IMPROVE Your spesies and need not say that hope
that tus your earnest desire ard would give to
tie world children WHO coali Justly boast Iha' tleI
better than their father YOU must look ont for VIE
OF earnest and serio., disposition VINO away post
pones Amusement % iny' am "p ~ say way 1ryn
dance without murmur u nusre sick brother Think,
my boy OF these things be)re you permit yourself
~ fau 10 love Re sire that you know whai the con
stttutiOn o family before you allow even adnlfa-
ton sir your heart And next 70 the constitution
and especially TIE freedom rom nous IN. e.s.ey' =.
sure Of the ~ dutT In your PROF osed wife H.
yeatnS.s a9l tanner ana be1ltv into account there
can but with your own great sweetness
You might afford 70 wife OF nasty temper; you
could not Afford 10 have vile With any elem snt OF
frivoAty in her, with due regard 10 youf posteIlty
young would not be driven ny such an
address that into little scorn iof his father snd
positive determination to ignore all such nonsense
In satisfying his own heart wonld Do poor sort OF
creature And the reason Is OBVIOUS; II young people
are into the closest ties 81 lie guided BY sdch
considerations as these they must nr-t ne IN cohitoh
OF mimi In which r. would be al but certain that they
would be utterly Idi-posel 70 enter on nrse cio.es ties
AZ all rs quite true that thwe II alWays rIsA IN
forming such ties. Few young people really Know each
other or can know eacu other before marrase, sum,
clenty 20 round so close relation n. that ol husDahu
and wife on mere knowlefge. Nay, without stro1s
never really come at all In marriage u i love wnicn
brings knowledge at least ten times as often AS knOwl
class Of considerations which Sir George Campbell
would give prominence, and you conceive man = DO
make Infinitely blduer. IN trying Judge OF the
he thought OF making his VIE without love, than
made many by falling In love first and learning the
truth about her afterward IucEily for Us, even the
accurate vision or more impartial criticism.
Prooa ly. indeed. In no country in which mutual
has recognized a. te highest guarantee Tor
tue Happiness Of EirAse coad parental authority ever
again take It, place but stu less could i take It's place
Il the parental authority chose to grOun ITSELF avoVed
on antlrOpO oca IrHcipies and 20 apply surh luack
tests or suitability described After all as
youth would even chemical Alillc5
have been dis rOverrd 10y tho chemists Ia
spection OF the separate eemeAts. No chemist could
ever scOvere In what proportions, or under what
conditions, hydrogen and oxygen would combine. oy
merely ecting them. IL by their actual com
bnatiOu, by that alone. that the stability or insta
billy OF their union became thing that could be tested
Aud what OF chemical affinity must be Infinitely
truer OF the deeper and subtle atniues III
auman nature. II easily happen that tho attrAc-
tons SHOW themselves do not turn ont "a be
all that hoped. do turn out to Dc OF no real
stability hut al least they open the way ma ur
and tavOiably for the development OF much closer
ainties While rhe antnrOpOOgsts notion tnat the sen
tmenf should he dispensed WITH till the sane ION
OF sober criticism has been obtained Tor II, would ne
very apt ans euder initial mutual repuson. instead
great OF attraction which sweeps away az
Tetcences and reserves and makes mutual
knowledge easy and possible
Tie great OF the many ambitious sciences OF
that their geyOtees eager 70 SUD
stitute feeble lights they elicit for those great IN
of Nature WHICH though not founded on theoreuc
OF which bodily and mental life Is 10 very
large proportion made up. Would child ever learn 70
walk L. had to follow accurately tue directions OF TIE
teachers statistics and dyusuics before he could learn
baarce prope himsefl Would he ever fall Into
the disc plne civilized society Il he had TO guide hin
self by the philosophy OF that society philosophy
which IL behind the social art which 10 tries 70 eR
plain It's idst the with these empirical teachers
OF the principles by which marriage may be nhde
to subserve the impros emeut Of the species. They
recommend principles which simply Impossible,
because II they cOud be really followed. hardly Ohe
marriage In ten would plaDe st al and because II
they were followed ten mistakes would be made IoI
every one which l. made now. and probably mistakes
times serious well as ten times AS numerous