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Show Kasy Divorce the Ru'n of Society. E1U Lynn Llntm In the Jantia y Forum. This cry for divorce so easy as to destroy de-stroy all saeroduess in marriage is a stop backward. It is the disintegration disintegra-tion of society, the ruin of the family, tho apotheosis of tho beast, tho annihilation annihi-lation of the citizen. If the children belonged to tho state and parentage moaut simply production, then tho free lovers might well have their innings. A child would l.e always the properly of the state, and marriage would be nil obsolete superstition. But this kind of life would be impossible as things are. The moral sense of mankind has gone far beyond the reproduction of the old Roman license and mediaeval profligacy. profli-gacy. When the philosophy of '-Sym-jiUHiimata" and "The Kreutzer Sonata" finds men and women not in bedlum ready to discuss and accost it as a possible pos-sible way out of difficulties, the theories of the free lovers must needs fall to llie ground. |