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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY OF MARRIAGE. Everybody knows Plato's theory about marriage. He assumed that men and women were hemispheres, so to speak, of an original sphere; that ill-assorted marriages were the result of the wrong hemispheres getting together; that if the true halves met, the man became complete, and the consequence was the happy-ever-after of childhood's stories. We agree with the first of philosophers to a considerable extent. We hold that for every man there is one woman somewhere in the world, and for every woman one man. They seldom meet in time. If they did, what would become of the sensation-novelists ? Mr. Tennyson has in The Princess dealt wisely and beautifully with the relations between men and women. But those relations can only be treated in an exoteric way under the conditions of modern literature. Neither University is at all likely to establish a Professorship of the Gay Science; but how excellent a thing it would he if young people could be taught the true principles of love and marriage ! Look at the blunders daily made in a matter which is the turning-point of the whole life.Women's Rights. 63 Look at the disparities?of age, fortune, temper, intellect ?which the slightest experience of the world brings perpetually under one's notice. A very good woman may make a very bad wife. There is, in fact, a magnetic adjustment in matters matrimonial; pity that the Huxleys and Tyndalls of the day cannot find some infallible method of testing it. It was, we believe, Alfred de Musset who said that a wife ought to be above all things bon camarade. There is much truth herein. Indeed, it is because women do not as a custom make themselves the companions of men that at intervals there comes up some ridiculous question of woman's independence, of wo...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217970877
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217970877
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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