The Great Unmarried 
recognized caste, and mere birth, with- 
out the prestige of virtue and wisdom, 
will count for nothing.”’ 
In short, ‘“‘the social remedy for 
readjusting the tendency to defer marri- 
age long after the attainment of the 
adult age, is the diffusion of healthier 
views of the conjugal relation, accom- 
panied by a reconsideration of the 
essential question of pecuniary means.”’ 
‘“Industrialism and commerce must be 
adjusted to life, and not permitted to 
kill all that constitutes living.”’ 
HIS VIEW OF US 
Mr. Gallichan’s remarks on a needed 
change in divorce laws apply more to 
England than to the United States. 
What he thinks of our own lawmakers is 
worth knowing: 
“In the United States the attitude 
to the sex question is curiously variable. 
Some of the social views and legal 
enactments are sanely conceived and 
equitable, while others are monstrously 
ridiculous and futile. On one hand, we 
have such inept regulations as that 
which prohibits a pair of lovers from 
decorous fondling in the public parks; 
and on the other hand we find many 
instances of a breadth of rational 
opinion concerning sexual instruction 
for the young. There is the tyrannous 
Puritanism that bans scientific inquiry 
into the psychology of sex, and permits 
a post-office censorship of serious books 
in transit; and there is the growing 
interest in, and the encouragement of, 
research in the neglected department 
of sex-hygiene. There are wild meas- 
ures for the suppression of vice, and 
entirely sane official inquiry into the 
causes, the conditions, and the preven- 
tion of prostitution. America affords 
instances of excessive prudery and of 
frank, seemly investigation. Books are 
banned in the United States; but some 
that are suppressed in England are sold 
openly in America. 
“Divorce law in the United States, 
although by no means universally equal 
throughout all the States, is fairly 
humane and broad. Careless critics of 
marriage reform often point to America 
as the country of frequent and wide- 
spread divorce. The truth is entirely 
559 
contrary to this assumption. Taking 
the whole of the population, divorces in 
America are not even 1%. It should be 
remembered that New England, the 
home of Puritanic morality, was the 
birthplace of reform in the matter of 
divorce. Freedom of divorce is not a 
factor of immorality.”’ 
To return to Mr. Gallichan’s “‘social 
remedies,.”’ it will be observed that 
they are on the whole of the same 
general character as those that Amer- 
icans, facing quite different problems to 
those of the Englishman, have urged. 
Mr. Gallichan feels that if those who 
have this attitude make it persistently 
known, they will win the day. 
A PROPAGANDA OF MARRIAGE 
“The propaganda of marriage must 
be well planned and the instruction 
graduated. Above all, the advantages 
of wedlock should be insistently urged, 
and the evils of celibacy and the counter- 
feit celibacy vividly illustrated. . 
The fine ideals of love and marriage, as - 
presented in the highest forms of art, 
and in the biographies of the happily 
wedded, should be taught as history is 
taught in the schools.”’ 
“We have ardent crusaders against 
vice, but where are the propagandists 
of one of its antidotes, marriage? What 
publicist of note, what cleric, what 
statesman has suggested a campaign 
for the promotion of matrimony?” 
“The true, intimate chronicle of an 
everyday married life has not been 
written. Here is a theme for genius; 
for only genius can divine and reveal 
the beauty, the pathos, and the wonder 
of the normal or the commonplace. A 
felicitous marriage has its comedy, its 
complexities, its element, too, of tragedy 
and grief, as well as its serenity and its 
fealty. Matrimony, whether the pair 
fare well or ill, is always a great adven- 
ture, a play of deep instincts and power- 
ful emotions, a drama of two psyches. 
Every marriage provides a theme for the 
literary artist. No lives are free from 
enigmas. 
“Art might be more often employed 
in the service of Hymen, in the laudation 
rather than the criticism and condemna- 
tion of marriage. It is well to use the 
