The Myth in Marriage

								


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  THE MYTH IN MARRIAGE


by Alice Hubbard


The Roycrofters
East Aurora N.Y.

  Copyright, 1912
By Alice Hubbard

CONTENTS

  FOREWORD                          7


ROMANCE                          13


THE REVELATION                   19


FACTS                            21


AN AWAKENING                     25


THE NATURAL MARRIAGE             29


THE SOCIAL MARRIAGE              33


THE MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE      37


CONCLUSION                       39


THE BUSINESS OF MARRIAGE         41


PRIMITIVE BONDAGE                45


NATURE'S METHOD                  49


ECONOMIC FREEDOM                 53


CITIZENS                         55


ENFORCED DEPENDENCE              63


HOMOGENEITY                      71


ROMANCE                          75

FOREWORD

Marriage is a subject of interest to all adults, and at one time in almost
every life it is the vision that fills the horizon.
To many it is a mirage.
To a few it proves to be the hills from whence cometh their strength. The
rising sun of romance tips every blade of grass, every leaf and flower and
twig, with the mystery and miracle of color and perfume.
The noonday light reveals truth that the half-light of the dawn could not
show.
And evening twilight garners all the richness of marriage.
The purpose of this book is to enlighten by bringing into the light of day
experiences that must come into the lives of women and men.
--Alice Hubbard.

The Myth in Marriage

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction
that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can
come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is
given to him to till.--Emerson.

ROMANCE



    The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it

    includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can

    love.--Thoreau.

Marriage, although a most common incident in life, is understood as little
as is birth, life and death. People are perpetually ignorant on the
subject, and insist upon remaining in this state until the veil of their
temple is rent in twain, and their holy of holies has daylight thrown upon
it.
Love is a sacred mystery whose secret is as yet locked away from mortals.
We recognize a few of its manifestations and dream of its power. We
connect it in our thoughts with marriage and birth, but we assume its
presence: we do not bring proof.
Love is spirit, and can not be analyzed nor understood.
The most that man can apprehend of it is to know its absence or its
presence. Its most refined manifestations have come to us with the