Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / by Alexander Walker.

  • Alexander Walker
Date:
1898
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fourteen girls ; in New Spain, one hundred boys to ninety- seven girls ; and in the East Indies, as has been vaguely stated, one hundred and twenty-nine boys to one hundred and twenty-four girls. The number of men, however, is rendered equal to, or a little less than, that of women by destructive trades, navigation, wars, and various accidents. Women also live longer than men. Every argument, then, proves that for mankind mono- gamy is a natural law. Without marriage it is evident that there could be no ascertained family, no patrimonial inheritance, no individual property, no labour, no civilization springing therefrom. History proves that marriage is essential to the well- being of human society, and that celibacy brings ruin upon states. Marriages and population increase in young and vigorous nations ; both diminish in nations which are falling into decay. As to ancient times, Greece and Rome afford well-known examples of this ; and, as to modern times, we need only compare Spain, Portugal, and Italy, nations of monks and bachelors, with England, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden and the great representative republic of the United States. For analogous reasons births are much more numeious in the country than in cities, and even in the suburbs of cities than in their centres. Everywhere the rich and voluptuous eager for enjoy- ment plunge into excess, perpetually exceed their pecuniary means, are compelled to look in marriage for nothing but fortune, and must regard children only as a burden.
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