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for them, it cannot be that they will perversely do wrong against 

 every motive to do right. There are, no doubt, cases of ex- 

 ceptional, perhaps insane, depravity, but we educate our children, 

 and we try to influence, in various ways, the conduct of those 

 around us, preach sermons, write books, because we believe 

 men can be instructed, can be helped, can be influenced by 

 motives to shun vice and practice virtue. If some can be 

 taught and influenced, more can. If some can be induced to 

 " cease to do evil and learn to do well," where can we limit 

 the possible reformation? 



CHAPTER IX. 



PROBLEMS OF THE SEXUAL RELATION. 



Of the True Marriage The Relation of Marriage to Love Limitation of 

 the Number of Offspring Marital Rights Woman's Rights and 

 Wrongs The Religious Rule The Population Question Food Re- 

 sources of Great Britain and Ireland The Physiological Solution 

 Ought the Sexes to be Educated together Dangers of Seduction 

 Jealousy. 



MANY questions arise in an artificial social condition respect- 

 ing the relations of the sexes to each other, which are difficult 

 to answer. The highest good is not always attainable we are 

 sometimes driven to a choice of evils. 



It is held by many persons almost as an article of religious 

 faith, that there is for each person one love, and one object of 

 love. Marriages are made in heaven, and when the two 

 persons who belong to each other are joined there is no 

 separation in time or eternity. It is a spiritual as well as a 

 material relationship which death cannot sever, and for the 

 survivor to marry another is spiritual adultery. To persons of 



