Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.
- Alexander Walker
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![must be wearied of the existing union, and must be anxious for a new one, and therefore will delight in the prospect of freedom. “To this I answer[he might have said—that the adulterer does not need this boon, for he al- ready has it, whiist the injured wife is neglected] that it may probably happen, that in many cases the guilty party will desire the dissolution of the marriage; but I contend that neither the wishes nor antipathies of the guilty party are to be re- garded. The legislature does not interfere in compliance with the caprice of the guilty, but on the plea of the innocent. Should the adulterer be thus benefitted, the advantage he obtains is only incidental to the relief granted to the other. Surely, the Legislature is not to be prevented from grant- ing justice and relief to those who have a right to it, through a fear lest in so doing it should meet the wishes of the undeserving. “ By declaring divorce for adultery to be a com- plete dissolution of the marriage, and not merely a ground of separation, the Legislature has an oppor- tunity of doing an act of justice to those who are now aggrieved by being bound by the marriage tie after the sentence of divorce has been pro- nounced. On the general worthlessness of English law on](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095851_0325.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
