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218 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
It is the opinion of many
that divorce should be as
free as marriage. Entire freedom of divorce could
never dissolve one real marriage ; and if the shams
were broken, real ones could take their places. Many
I know are between those
of the happiest marriages
who have been unhappily married and separated. Be
cause a man makes an innocent blunder, it is no reason
he should suffer for it a life time He has promised ;
but he had no right to make a promise he had no power
to keep. In all other cases, the law absolves him, and
it should in this. If a man moves into a bad house, he
changes it for another; if he gets into a bad neighbor
hood, he moves out of it ; if he falls into a quagmire, he
scrabbles out.
That two young persons, who have flirted, and danced,
and simpered, and dawdled through
a fashionable court
ship, and then stood up before a parson, in white
gloves, satin, and orange flowers, should be compelled
to bore, and torment, and torture each other and every
body about them, till one dies, or is sent to State prison,
is a refinement of cruelty that only our absurd civiliza
tion could be guilty of. I truly believe, that in a social,
moral, and religious point of view, if every marriage not
founded on the true basis of mutual love were broken
up, the world would be immeasurably the gainer.
MODESTY.
Is there any foundation in nature for the sense of
modesty ? Those who look at the differences that ex
ist in different countries, in this respect, might doubt it.
It is true that the people of all nations, with a few ex
ceptions, conceal the organs of generation ; but even