Oxe of the most outspoken of the many remarkable letters we have received on the subject of modern women and marriage comes from a Yorkshire correspondent, (says the "Daily News"). He writes:
"What is the purpose of the discussion on marriage now raging in your turbid columns? Does the average reader need to be told that marriage is frequently a failure and frequently a success? Is that news?
"Or does anyone need to learn that mutual love is the cause of success, and want of love is the cause of failure? Does anyone dispute these truisms? And if not, what is the discussion about?
"Why do people always display imbecility and failure to grasp the obvious when discussing the subject of matrimony? They will solemnly assert that no law can make a sttecess of marriage without love, and yet raise a howl directly you take them at their word, and adopt the only logical conclusion following frou their assertion—to wit, that, therefore, it better to dispense with legal marriage.
"Moxsrrocs Forty."
'Mledico,' the only thoroughly honest and consistent contributor to this discussion, has assured us that more than half the legal mar-nages of which he has intimate knowledge have turned out failures while the non-legal unions have been conspicuous for success.
"Tf experience thus tallies with reason what monstrous folly it is to marry by law at all! But most persons are neither rational nor honest, and so the dismal farce of tying silly, superficial, and selfish people legally together in the imcecile expectation that errors will be less injurious when made irrevocable, goes inevitably on.
"There is neither religion, sense, virtue, nor security in legal marriage, nor does it conduce to happiness either, but quite the reverse.
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