Abstract

On Love in Marriage

Utopia is the loveliest of all countries, it is also the farthest away. One may make magnificent generalizations concerning the future of the relations of the sexes, one may set down truths that are theoretically unanswerable. So far as anyone can see the habit of one man living with one woman will persist. The young will bear of nothing else, since they are under the sway of romantic passion which is, subjectively, exclusive and final, those who are older will hear of nothing else because experience has shown this method of life capable of securing the healthiest freedom from preoccupation with sex and the maximum amount of ordered activity. To be a rake or even a fastidious "varietist" is the costliest of occupations. Rational monogamy is in no danger.