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

  • E. S. P. Haynes
Date:
1915
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    had the audacity to get born without a pre- liminary fee to the Church, grows weaker. In a few States there may exist prohibitions of remarriage for a guilty spouse; but this is no real exception to the rule I have laid down, because the State cannot restrain such persons from cohabitation outside marriage. I have roughly sketched what I believe will be the attitude of the modern State to these matters, without dealing with existing diver- gencies in detail, because Iam not writing an essay on what the divorce laws of the world are or even what they ought to be. I am merely attempting to indicate where the sphere of law ought to end and the sphere of morality ought to begin. Let us therefore now consider the sphere of morality and the point of view of the moralist. 2. We may first note that the moralist in the older civilizations of the world, i.e. in France, Italy, Spain, and Russia, as also in countries like China and Japan, concerns him- self mainly with the question of family obli- gations and human happiness and not with the question of sexual laxity per se. In Hinglish-speaking countries the question of sexual laxity fills the foreground of the discussion; the opponents of divorce are at pains to assert that it increases, its sup- porters that it diminishes, sexual laxity, as 15
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