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Show POET MILTON ADVOCATED DIVORCE, SAYS SCHURMAN New York. Jan. 18. Milton, the poet, was an advocate of divorce, according ac-cording to President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell university. In an address before the Society of Eth-ical Eth-ical Culture, Dr. Schurman said hero yesterday: "I am the last man in the world to allude to the regulation of divorce as a bright feature of the American confutation. con-futation. It is a shame and danger in the extreme to which it has gone, but the other extreme would be just as bad. CvIHton advocated that, under certain circumstances, divorces should be permitted. We, In America, are enjoying today some of the best pollti- I cal principles which it has endeavor- I ed." |