The question of English divorce : an essay.

Date:
1903
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    course, equivalent to allowing divorce for unconquerable aversion under proper and legal conditions. And surely, too, the in- habitants of these countries cannot really be considered as less governed by Chris- tian considerations than we are. In the meantime, it seems most likely that the more Public Opinion is instructed and educated, the less it will be disposed to condemn as effectively as it can, and as it should, an offence that the present state of the law makes excusable in many cases, and even reasonable in not a few. But, it may be asked, what is the usual course of events in the case of unconquerable aversion obtaining at the present time between any couple ? The result that is usually hoped for is that the persons concerned will continue to live under the same roof, and will suppress, so far as they are able, their own perpetual misery. Their intercourse will have ceased; their companionship will have gone ; their interests will lie in different directions; their conversation