And Romance, that lured them to life, and lighted their path to marriage, will ever illumine the way, even unto death. If a woman's desire is to seek ease and luxury, and find oblivion, let her not marry, for that is not the easiest way thither. A woman has neither natural nor moral right to involve others in her selfishness. If a man wants adoration, comfort, indulgence, cheap service and ease, let him not marry. He probably can get them all with more certainty and with less expense without marrying. A man has neither natural nor moral right to marry for these. Men and women have not evolved far. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." Higher ideals will lure humanity on and on to a higher state of intelligence, and to better living, to a more refined and nobler justice than we have yet imagined. Men and women will not long be looking for ease, nor want to have what they do not earn. When love calls, they will respond with intelligence, knowing that this is Nature's voice, and therefore divine. They will rejoice in the most strenuous exercise of living. Then with deep joy we can say at the close: "To live is glorious. I have lived!" THE MYTH IN MARRIAGE WRITTEN BY ALICE HUBBARD TITLE-PAGE, INITIALS AND ORNAMENTS ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THIS BOOK BY RAYMOND NOTT TYPOGRAPHY BY A. V. INGHAM [Illustration] PRINTED BY THE ROYCROFTERS AT THE ROYCROFT SHOPS EAST AURORA, NEW YORK MAY, MCMXII End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Myth in Marriage, by Alice Hubbard