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most tempted to exclaim, "It is better to
curse God and die.'
In the presence of such crime, so
common and widespread how can we be
silent? The laws are silent. Our moral
and religious teachers are dumb ''dogs."
Society, with its cant and hypocrisy,
turns up its eyes in pious terror at the
mere mention of the subject. AS though
it could be indelicate to diagnose any
form of disease, or one more than enoth-
er; or as if no depravity should be rem
edially discussedeif it happen to be sex
ual But if we remember that the sect
of the Pharisee IS not extinct, we also
bear in mind that in all ages there have
been fearless teachers who refused to
hide the truth, and humbly following
in their steps we have dared to "cry
'aloud and spare not"
An excellent writer long ago said,
''Truth is, in everything, not only the
shortest, but the only road to excellence
the only foundation on which every
thing permanent can ever be raised, and
all ways of evading, sighting, or oppos-
ing it are, in fact. only loss of time and
hindrance of business in the affairs of
; men.
The marriages of the physically unfit
form only a part Of the welded evil
Loveless marriages are answerablc for
much. 1t is with us now as it was in
France before the Revolution. "Persons
of the rank of mobiles were found vile
enough to accept in marriage, and to
, bestow the name of wife on those whose
conduct as we'll as birth, would other
wise have denied them an entrance into
Society. Sometimes the same disgrace
full bargain was made with those of their
own rank, who found more honorable
r. establishment difficult. The husband
: sacrificing at once his honour and his
rights at the church door, was sent to
eat the wages of his base compliance in
f a distant provincial town. Here his title
and his money soon procured him the
, good graces of some provincial beauty,
who consoled him for the contempt with
which he had been treated elsewhere and
l whose husband initiated his own exam
=. pie of forbearance and submission. The
sacrifice of youth and beauty was often
8 made, and made without remonstrance
: to deformity, to age, and, even to i'm
n becility. among persons equal in birth
d when one of the parties had 20 offer
r the wealth or brilliant existence in soci-
s ETY. which was wanting TO the other.''
o We are cheated by words, for these
4 unnatural unions are not ''The Editor OF
: Madame du Defaud's Letters
t marriages. True marriage is spiritual
v and mental exosmose and endosmose
|. each gives of its own to each until both
h are alike. It is natural and spontan-
e eous union of ideas, aims, and sympath-
les. And where these exist, rites and
y ceremonies are superfluous. They can
It neither give nor take away. For the
o marriage ceremony is not marriage, but
It it is merely the public profession of an
b accomplished fact, otherwise it IS moral
ly fraudulent. And if marriage does
s not precede the ceremony, no real mar
t riage exists.
: 1t is because we attach to the word
4 what rightly belongs to the things, that
/; an act of nature is stigmatized as a
4 crime.
S When women prompted by their own
e atfectionate and generous instincts and
. regardless of ceremonies have become
: mothers, our social Juggernaut crushes
S them remorsefully. 1t brands them as
e outcasts, and thus they hang, drown or
: prostitute themselves. Holocausts of
b little ones, innocent as those of Bethlehem
s are annually sacrificed to the fear of the
:. wooden God. What, say you, would
e you permit ''natural' children among
/ us? Most certainly. All children are
: natural except the offspring of enforced
e and unnatural marriages.
. It is evident to all observers that the
a prudent and wise are cautious in the ex-
1 ercise of their creative powers, whereas
the least fit are the most reckless of con-
e sequences. Their criminal folly is thus
+ perpetuated as we'll as it's evils. Who
then, it may be asked shall Judge as 20
fitness? We reply that a jury composed
3 of doctors of both sexes could on con-
, sultation easily decide as to mans
g general capacity for marriage. If it be