CHAPTER XIV

MARRIAGE

Its importance and the motives that lead to it 300 The moral and intellectual qualities it specially demands 302 Duty to the unborn.--Improvident marriages 305 The doctrine of heredity and its consequences 306 Religious celibacy 308 Marriages of dissimilar types often peculiarly happy 309 Marriages resulting from a common weakness 310 Independent spheres in marriage.--Effect on character 311 The age of marriage 312 Increased independence of women 314