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riage for position may go ; but marriage for love, I believe 

 and trust, will last for ever. Men in the future will prob- 

 ably feel that a union with their cousins or near relations 

 is positively wicked ; that a union with those too like them 

 in person or disposition is at least undesirable ; that a union 

 based upon considerations of wealth or any other considera- 

 tion save considerations of immediate natural impulse, is 

 base and disgraceful. But to the end of time they will 

 continue to feel, in spite of doctrinaires, that the voice of 

 nature is better far than the voice of the Lord Chancellor 

 or the Eoyal Society ; and that the instinctive desire for a 

 particular helpmate is a surer guide for the ultimate happi- 

 ness, both of the race and of the individual, than any 

 amount of deliberate consultation. It is not the foolish 

 fancies of youth that will have to be got rid of, but the 

 foolish, wicked, and mischievous interference of parents or 

 outsiders. 



