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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![made for the convenience of the few, whilst it entirely excludes the necessities of the many. “Divorce, by act of parliament, is perhaps, the worst stain upon our national character. Is divorce good or bad?. If the former, give it to all whose case requires it: if the latter, bestow it upon none. At present, it is but a mere sale of a licence for vice ..... A divorce bill is simply a form, in which, for the sake of money, our legislators set_ aside—what they declare to be the law of God [whenever it is asked for by the poor man who cannot pay, or by the helpless woman!] A. divorce bill is merely a question of rank and money. In any honest and sensible mind, the mention of such a bill raises only ideas of the villany of law. “Qur ecclesiastical courts are the object of ridicule throughout Europe . . . Government would alter the law; but the moment they wish to reform an ecclesiastical court, they are over- whelmed with the cry of * The Church in danger !” The consequence of this is, that there have, of late years, been many instances of married people who had agreed to part, going from Eng- land to reside in Scotland, that they might be considered as inhabitants of that country, and therefore entitled to divorce in the same manner as if they had-been natives. During the vast year, the tribunals of Prussia](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095851_0327.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
