Marriage – Fundamental Motives, Process of Courtship, Extra-Legal Devices and Intermezzo on Monogamy

Marriage – Fundamental Motives, Process of Courtship, Extra-Legal Devices and Intermezzo on Monogamy

How successful such a concealment may be is well displayed by the general acceptance of the notion that women are reluctant to enter into marriage—that they have to be persuaded to it by eloquence and pertinacity, and even by a sort of intimidation. The truth is that, in a world almost divested of intelligible idealism, and hence dominated by a senseless worship of the practical, marriage offers the best career that the average woman can reasonably aspire to, and, in the case of very many women, the only one that actually offers a livelihood. What