"Every social ill involves the enslavement of individuals. Freedom
is that phase of the social ideal which emphasizes
individuality.--All mankind acknowledges kindness as the law of
right intercourse within a social group.--The ideal of service
goes with the sense of unity.--A likeness of spirit and principle
is essential to moral unity. The creation of a moral order on an
ever-growing scale is the great historical task of mankind, and
the magnitude of it explains all shortcomings."--CHARLES H.
COOLEY, in _Social Organization_.
"The sanctity of oaths
Lies not in lightning that avenges them,
But in the injury wrought by broken bonds
And in the garnered good of human trust.
'Tis a compulsion of the higher sort,
Whose fetters are the net invisible
That holds all life together.
'Tis faithfulness that makes the life we choose
Breathe high and see a full-arched firmament.
We may see ill
But over all belief is faithfulness
Which fulfils vision with obedience.
No good is certain, but the steadfast mind,
The undivided will to seek the good;
'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings
A human music from the indifferent air."
--GEORGE ELIOT.
"Genuine government is but the expression of a nation
Good or less good; even as all society
Is but the expression of men's single lives--
The loud sum of the silent units."--E.B. BROWNING.
"There is no other genuine enthusiasm than one which has travelled
the common highway--the life of the good man and woman, the good
neighbor, the good citizen."--THOMAS GREEN HILL.
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom."
--SHAKESPEARE.
=The Problems of Divorce.=--Having treated in some detail the subject
of "Problems of Marriage and Divorce" in a former book, _Woman's Share
in Social Culture_, and also in articles published in _The
International Journal of Ethics_, _The Harvard Theological Review_,
_Harper's Weekly_, and other magazines, this chapter, to avoid
repetition, will simply rehearse in brief outline the points of view
previously expressed.
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