CHAPTEK IT 



THE GROWTH OF THE TIE 



In Greece and Rome were sown the seeds of mucli that 

 goes to make up the civilisation of to-day, in letters, 

 art, and law, and in the long stretch of centuries that 

 elapsed from Homer to the Emperor Constantine 

 marriage underwent great changes. The Greeks 

 never fully attained to the modern conception of mutual 

 fidelity on the part of husbands and wives ; they 

 made this enormous advance upon their barbarian 

 neighbours, however, that marriage was intimately 

 bound up with citizenship, and that great store was 

 set upon matronly virtue, which was ensured by the 

 seclusion of wives in pretty much the same fashion as 

 that obtaining at the present day in Eastern countries. 

 Love appears to have had little to do with mar- 

 riage, for the few individual instances of conjugal 

 attachment that have been handed down to us did 



