89. The marriage unhappy in consequence of poverty. 90. Unhappy marriage. The husband a drinker, the wife working amid trouble and poverty. 91. Unhappy marriage. Poverty, misunderstanding, jealousy, and illness. 92. A family of servants. Wife and daughter at the disposal of the master. 93. Unhappy marriage. Frequent brawls. Mutual mistrust, hatred, and contempt. 94. Unhappy marriage. Upright husband deceived by his wife, and, in consequence of great poverty, is unable to control her. 95. Unhappy marriage. Husband has run away. 96. Immoral marriage. Husband, wife, and children live on the wages of unchastity. 97. } } 98. }Miserable marriages, which ended in the poor-house. } 99. } 100. A happy pair, who had endured all the severe trials of life, had forgiven each other everything, and never abandoned one another, a =virtuous= marriage in the noblest sense. Thus, among these hundred marriages there were: Unhappy, about 48 Indifferent 36 Unquestionably happy 15 Virtuous 1 Virtuous and orthodox -- Further, among these hundred marriages there were: Intentionally immoral 14 Dissolute and libertine 51 Altogether above suspicion ? Further: Wives who were ill owing to the husband’s fault 30 Wives who were ill not owing to the husband’s fault 30 Wives who were unhappy, and had themselves to blame for it 12 Among these hundred marriages only one was happy owing to mutual faithfulness; all the other slightly happy marriages, if one may call them so, were so only because the wife did not disturb herself with regard to the question of her husband’s faithfulness. From these statistics Gross-Hoffinger draws the following conclusions: 1. About =one-half= of all marriages are =absolutely unhappy=. 2. Much more than one-half of all marriages are obviously =demoralized=. 3. The morality of the remaining smaller moiety is preserved only by avoiding questions regarding the husband’s faithfulness. 4. Fifteen per cent. of all marriages live on the earnings of professional unchastity and procurement. 5. The number of orthodox marriages which are entirely above every suspicion of marital infidelity (assuming the existence of complete sexual potency) is in the eyes of every reasonable man, who understands the demands which Nature makes, and the violence of those demands, =equivalent to nil=. Hence the =ecclesiastical= purpose of marriage is =generally=, =fundamentally=, and =completely evaded=.