MARRIAGE. 97 



If the passion be wholly expended in one direction it 

 cannot be expended in another. Intellectual nerve, 

 moral nerve, and circumstance, in some degree control 

 its expenditure. It may be spent worthily on worthy 

 objects; or it may find altogether ignoble outlets. 

 ,The man or the woman given over to sensuality, for 

 example, is frequently devoid of affection ; while very 

 possibly the whole feeling of a somewhat less im- 

 passioned individual may be devoted to loyal, persistent, 

 and unselfish affection. 



In previous pages I have pointed to, as they seemed 

 to me, the teachings of organisation and heredity on 

 the question of the marriage of cousins : when such 

 marriage is, and when it is not, open to objection. 

 I have also on another page ventured to give a hint 

 to the widower who, wishing for a wife, though pro- 

 fessing that he desires " to find a mother for his chil- 

 dren" often brings to them a bitter and cruel enemy. 

 Faithful and admirable service to children can be 

 obtained, as can all other service, for monthly or 

 quarterly wages. 1 believe it to be possible however 

 for him to choose a second wife who will bring to his 

 children, and to him, genuine friendship and punc- 

 tilious duty. It is too much to expect of a woman of 

 defiantly erect spine, of heavy eyebrows, and whose 

 thick-hair descends to her waist, who idolises a man, 

 to look with favour on that man's children by another 

 woman. 



NOTE II. EDUCATION. 



In this, and in the following notes, I refer to heredity 

 and organisation in their general bearings rather than 

 in their relation to temperamental bias. 



