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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![this great subject, an excellent article in The Dis- patch makes the following observations. ‘“‘From a regulation of the intercourse of the sexes proceeds all the happiness or all the miseries of human life. How, then, stands the case in our country ? 2 ‘¢ A man with a very large sum of money may get a divorce from the houses of parliament, and may. marry again. A man with a smaller, but considerable sum of money, may get, from the ecclesiastical courts, a half divorce, which relieves him merely from his wife’s debts, but does not . enable him to enter into another matrimonial con- nexion. A man with no money, or an insuflicient sum, can have no divorce at all. In short, in this most enlightened country, the whole subject. of divorce is divested by the clergy [strange to tell !] of all religion and virtue, and made simply a ques- tion of capacity to pay. ‘“‘ Of course, the majority of the people must be poor; an immense majority must be too destitute to afford such enormous expenses; and hence the bulk of society, in these kingdoms, are out of the pale of the law... On such an important sub- ject as marriage, the law ought solely to consult the greatest good of the greatest number. Here, we find the directly opposite principle: the law is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095851_0326.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
