CHAPTER X. 



NOTES ON MARRIAGE, EDUCATION, 

 CHANGE IN CHARACTER, AND* MORALS. 



NOTE I. 



IF THE active and less impassioned men and women 

 know little of the violent forms of love or hate or 

 jealousy, they frequently possess genuine and elevated 

 affection. They, especially women, readily enter into 

 the marriage compact. It is a curious fact, by the 

 way, one difficult to explain and not to be discussed 

 here that the less impassioned women, more than the 

 deeply passionate, tend to have large families. 



The growth of unconventional opinion on the mar- 

 riage question is of deep significance. It is sheer folly 

 to discuss the matter, as without exception it is dis- 

 cussed, and ignore OK overlook the existence of two 

 widely different temperamental biases different in 

 those who marry and different in those who are so 

 ready to criticise love and marriage. 



If any success has attended the endeavour in these 

 pages to furnish certain anatomical and physiological 

 data indicative of underlying temperament, one boon 

 at any rate will follow. The choosers in marriage will 

 be less blindfold in their choice. In the choosers and 

 in the chosen, even within the limits of two broad 

 tendencies, there is endless variety. Let us consider, 

 by way of example, two men *and two women of the 

 extremer sort. One man may say, " I cannot be 

 troubled with foolish and oppressive sentiment. I 



