Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes.

  • Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929.
Date:
1915
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Credit: Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is faithful to her until death. The Cebus Capucinus, on the contrary, is polygamous.”—Ibid., p. 33. Page 120.—“ The destinies of a life-time. “ Unlike the Catholic Church in its dealings with novices, Society demands [in marriage] the ring, the parchment, and the vow as a preliminary to the know¬ ledge and experience; hence adulteries, the divorce court, home-prisons, and the increase of cant and pruriency in the community. Unless a woman knows what a man’s body is like, with its virile needs, and realises to the full her own adult necessities, how is it possible that she can have the faintest conception as to whether the romantic passionate impulse a man awakens in her is the trinity of love, trust and rever¬ ence, which alone lays the foundation of real mar¬ riage ? ’’—Edith M. Ellis, “A Noviciate for Mar¬ riage,” p. 13. Page 107.—“ Contracts of some kind will still be made. “ It is therefore probable that a future more or less distant will inaugurate the regime of monogamic unions, freely contracted, and, at need, freely dis¬ solved by simple mutual consent, as is already the case with divorces in various European countries— at Geneva, in Belgium, in Roumania, etc., and with separation in Italy. In these divorces of the future, the community will only intervene in order to safe¬ guard that which is of vital interest to it—the fate and the education of the children. But this evolution in