“_Whom does not love rule? And where is he not Lord?_” _Epiphanes Soter._ “_There is no advisable love unless it is as reverent as it is romantic, as permanent as it is passionate._” _George M. Gould._ “_Faithful monogamy must ever be woman’s standard in love, because only in its still certainty can she fitly prepare and keep the place for her child._” _Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale._ “_Too many have forgotten that love is as much a subject of the law of evolution or progressive development as any other biologic thing._” _Haeckel._ _N. B. The attached six questions, to which I have appended answers, were once submitted to me by an American publication for comment or solution! At the time I was unable to make an intelligible reply, but having since given the matter thought I have answered them, largely for my own satisfaction. They are submitted with no faith in any possible fixed solution but merely as meat for passing discussion._ I _Why is it, when there are so many evidences in favor of marriage as we practice it, that so many marriages fall short of just the purpose they seem meant to serve?_ In the first place, are there so many evidences in favor of marriage as we practice it? In part the question contains its own answer when it states that so many marriages fall short of just the purpose they seem meant to serve. Statistics for marriage and divorce show that one out of every seven marriages ends in the divorce court. For every one thus openly disrupted, how many others are restrained or concealed for reasons of religion, morality, children, society and business policy or permitted license? Many a couple agree to go their ways separately, doing as they please and shielding each other in their privileges. Others drift into a quarrelsome or unhappy state from sheer inertia or lack of means or charm or courage to establish or create a new condition. Millions sink in the slough of despond because they have not strength of any kind. Age, poverty, thickness of wit does for them completely.