MARRIAGE 



AN's gratuitous assumption of the in- 

 feriority in all respects of the lower 

 animals is evidence not only of his 

 unbounded conceit, but also of his 

 failure to realise the very nature of the 

 problem to be solved." 

 So writes one of the many earnest students of mental 

 science, who, of late years, have begun to question the 

 existence of a hard and fast line between the minds of 

 animals and the mind of man. 



Such an assertion coming as it does from one having 

 authority makes for humble consideration of many vexed 

 questions between us and the beasts that perish. 



But there is one question, one problem regarding which 

 consideration of any kind whatever is unnecessary, so ap- 

 pallingly evident is our unbounded conceit, our lack of 

 comprehension. 



This is the question, the problem involved by the word 

 " Marriage" — for it should never be forgotten that marriage 

 is but a word representing some more or less definite 

 conception of sexual duty and morality. 



But few of us, indeed, remember this. We use the 

 word as a shibboleth of salvation, and then from our world 



