Divorce as it might be / by E.S.P. Haynes.

  • E. S. P. Haynes
Date:
1915
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Credit: Divorce as it might be / by E.S.P. Haynes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    children would go to perdition if they did not see the quarrels and vices of their parents at close quarters, and that separated husbands and wives, or the healthy spouses of the in- sane, must learn to console themselves with furtive irregularities if they are not inclined “to take up their cross.” The prejudices of the British public against divorce law reform are not entirely religious or ascetic. There are, of course, many persons who, not content with subordinating their own lives to a transcendental martyrdom, desire to impose the same on their unfortunate fellow creatures; and even more who, being completely happy in their own surroundings, demand sacrifices which they would loudly deplore in their own case. To them it seems a righteous duty to subject unhappily married persons either to a cat-and-dog life under the same roof, or to a worse than monastic system of permanent separation. Our system is worse because monastic morality, for what it is worth, is perhaps easier, if not more con- Spicuous, in a monastery than it is in the world. But the less Pharisaical prejudices are to be found among the efficient, prosperous, and unimaginative. To them divorce savours of “throwing up the sponge.” We all know that the most successful marriage depends on the
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