Page 101, "The Destinies of a Lifetime": "Unlike the Catholic Church in its dealings with novices, society demands (in marriage) the ring, the parchment, and the vow as a preliminary to the knowledge and experience; hence adulteries, the divorce court, home-prisons, and the increase of cant and pruriency in the community. Unless a woman knows what a man's body is like, with its virile needs, and realizes to the full her own adult necessities, how is it possible that she can have the faintest conception as to whether the romantic passionate impulse a man awakens in her is the trinity of love, trust and reverence, which alone lays the foundation of real marriage?"-Edith M. Ellis, "A Novitiate for Marriage," page 13; Appendix "Love's Coming-of-Age," page 161.

Note to page 110, "Love's Coming-of-Age":

"While, either for man or woman, it is almost impossible to thoroughly understand their own nature, or that of others, till they have had sex experience, it happens so that in the case of woman the experience which should thus give the power of choice is frequently the very one which seals her destiny."

"The third type of woman, the prostitute, provides us with that question, which-according to Bebel-is the sphinxriddle that modern society cannot solve, and yet which unsolved threatens society's destruction. The commercial prostitution of love is the last outcome of our whole social system, and its most clear condemnation. It flaunts in our streets, it hides itself in the garment of respectability under the name of matrimony; it eats in actual physical disease and death right through our midst; it is fed by the oppression and ignorance of women, by their poverty and denied means of livelihood, and by the hypocritical puritanism which forbids them by millions not only to gratify but even to speak of their natural desires."-"Love's Coming-of-Age," pages 61-62.

The above quotations, advocating a novitiate of marriage, to be assumed for a short period and continued or disavowed after the trial has been consummated.-and tired of

The reference to the church, comparing this novitiate of a creature, anything but pure, with a young virgin desirous of consecrating her life in an unselfish manner for the good of others in the hospital, the school or the poor asylum, is sacrilegious.

From such minds come the enmity to all churches and re

ligion and fiendish attacks for all that is good and true and beautiful.

This is the cant of a majority of the Feminists, to which may be joined the name of Mrs. Havelock Ellis, who has lectured in America under the auspices of Woman Suffrage Clubs, insinuating such loose doctrine into the minds of women who were hitherto innocent.

It is hoped, exhibiting these doctrines of Feminism, Suffragism and Socialism to the public will cause many people to see the enormity of these doctrines and not be misled thereby.

"It is probably through this fact of the variety of love that it does remain possible, in some cases, for married people to have intimacies with outsiders, and yet to continue perfectly true to each other and in rare instances, for triune and other such relations to be permanently maintained."

"We now come to the last consideration, namely (4), the modification of the present law of marriage. It is pretty clear that people will not much longer consent to pledge themselves irrevocably for life as at present. And indeed there are always plentiful indications of a growing change of practice. The more people come to recognize the sacredness and naturalness of the real union, the less will they be willing to bar themselves from this by a lifelong and artificial contract made in their salad days. Hitherto the great bulwark of the existing institution has been the dependence of Women, which has given each woman a direct and most material interest in keeping up the supposed sanctity of the bond-and which has prevented a man of any generosity from proposing an alteration, which would have the appearance of freeing himself at the cost of the woman; but as this fact of the dependence of women gradually dissolves out, and as the great fact of the spiritual nature of the true marriage crystallizes into more clearness-so will the formal bonds which bar the formation of the latter gradually break away and become of small import."

"But surely it is not very difficult (for those who believe in the real thing) to imagine so sincere and natural a trust between man and wife that neither would be greatly alarmed at the other's friendship with a third person, nor conclude at once that it meant mere infidelity-or difficult even to imagine that such a friendship might be hailed as a gain by both parties. And if it is quite impossible (to some people)

to see in such intimacies anything but a confusion of all sexrelations and a chaos of mere animal desire, we can only reply that this view exposes with fatal precision the kind of thoughts which our present marriage system engenders."

"But, after all, Love is fed not by what it takes, but by what it gives; and the love of man and wife too must be fed by the love they give to others. If they cannot come out of their secluded haven to reach a hand to others, or even to give some boon of affection to those who need it more than themselves, or if they mistrust each other in doing so, then assuredly they are not very well fitted to live together.""Love's Coming-of-Age," pages 102, 100, 104-105.

Comrade Carpenter, Socialist and Feminist, needs no further elucidation, and there are no words in any language which will sufficiently condemn his views.

The advent of Socialism and Feminism has produced more evil mindedness in the world than his Satanic Majesty could have hoped for, during a thousand years of an unchained condition. The following extracts show the opinion of the Socialists and Feminists of the form of an alliance which they would recommend for men and women instead of the true Christian marriage.

The two classes are one and indivisable. They are also Suffragets and are fast educating the remaining Suffragets who now have an academic knowledge, and they hope that they will soon pass from the "Novitiate" of the Yellow Suffraget, to the graduate practice of the Red Socialist.

"Real life has certainly its claims; in the one case, that all who are hungry for food should have work, at such a rate of pay that they can eat; in the other, that all who are of a marriageable age should have the possibility of contracting marriage at the right time. But the changes that must take place before this can come to pass will fail to appear so long as society-under the assumption that prostitution is a necessary evil-superintends its results and thus gives itself the illusion that its dangers can be provided against. For thus society escapes the search for expedients which would better provide for the two fundamental needs-love and hungerfor the satisfaction of which prostitution at present provides the only means for many men and women.”

"Those ascetics who recommend only self-control as a remedy for the mastery of the sexual instinct, even when such control becomes merely obstructive to life, are like the physician who tried only to drive the fever out of his patient, it was nothing to him that the sick man died of the cure."-Ellen Key, "Love and Marriage," page 26 and page 33.

"As there is undoubtedly a certain natural reticence in sex, so perhaps the most decent thing in true Marriage would be to say nothing, make no promises-either for a year or a lifetime. Promises are bad at any time, and when the heart is full silence befits it best. Practically, however, since a love of this kind is slow to be realizeed, since social custom is slow to change, and since the partial dependence and slavery of Woman must yet for a while continue, it is likely for such period that formal contracts of some kind will still be made; only these (it may be hoped) will lose their irrevocable and rigid character, and become in some degree adapted to the needs of the contracting parties.

"It may, however, be said that rather than adopt any new system of contracts, public opinion in this country would tend to a simple facilitation of divorce, and that if the latter were made (with due provision for the children) to depend on mutual consent, it would become little more than an affair of registration, and the scandals of the proceeding would be avoided."-"Love's Coming-of-Age," pages 106 and 107.

"The antique morals which hold woman as a servile property belonging to her husband still live in many minds. They will be extinguished by degrees. The matrimonial contract will end by being the same kind of a contract as any other, freely accepted, freely maintained, freely dissolved; but where constraint has disappeared deception becomes an unworthy offense. Such will be the opinion of a future humanity, more elevated morally than ours. Doubtless it will no longer have any tender indulgence for conveniently dissimulated adultery, but, on the other hand, it will no longer excuse the avenging husband."-Letourneau.

Page 106, "Contracts of Some Kind Will Still Be Made": "It is therefore probable that a future more or less distant will inaugurate the regime of monogamic unions, freely contracted, and, at need, freely dissolved by simple mutual consent, as is already the case with divorce in various European countries-at Geneva, in Belgium, in Roumania, etc. -and with separation in Italy. In these divorces of the future, the community will only intervene in order to safeguard that which is of vital interest to it-the fate and the education of the children. But this evolution in the manner of understanding and practicing marriage will operate slowly, for it supposes an entire corresponding revolution in public

opinion; moreover, it requires as a corollary profound modifications in the social organism."-Letourneau, "Evolution of Marriage," page 127 and page 358.

The Socialists in their endeavor to discredit marriage as ordained by God in the beginning, in the form of monogamy have made speculative searches into the rites and customs of pre-historic times, and have produced many books on the subject of the origin of the family, Fredk. Engels, the coworker with Carl Marx, having been very active in this matter.

They recognize the fact that the present form of society cannot be revolutionized unless the family is overthrown. Volumes which they have written on the subject contain no established facts, but are merely myths and traditions. If the fact was established that certain barbarian tribes practice common or group marriages, this would teach no lesson to civilized people. The following show the glee that Socialists exhibit in discoursing on these supposed heathen marriages:

"Each person took what he needed from the common store. The group form of marriage prevailed, a man being married to all women not of his own marrying group.""Evolution and Revolution," page 9.

"It has lately become a fashion to deny the existence of this early stage of human sex life, in order to spare us this 'shame.' Apart from the absence of all direct proof, the example of the rest of animal life is invoked. From the latter, Letourneau quoted numerous facts, alleged to prove that among animals also an absolutely_unlimited sexual intercourse belongs to a lower stage. But I can only conclude from all these facts that they prove absolutely nothing for man and the primeval conditions of his life. The mating of vertebrates for a lengthy term is sufficiently explained by physical causes, e. g., among birds by the helplessness of the female during brooding time. Examples of faithful monogamy among birds do not furnish any proofs for men, for we are not descended from birds.

"And if strict monogamy is the height of virtue, then the palm belongs to the tapeworm that carries a complete male and female sexual apparatus in each of its 50 to 200 sections and passes its whole lifetime in fertilizing itself in every one of its sections. But if we confine ourselves to mammals, we find all forms of sexual intercourse, license, suggestions