Excerpt from Marriage and Divorce<br><br>MY object in writing this book is to submit the institution of marriage to criticism based upon daily experience, in order that such evils connected with it, as are purely artificial, may be fully considered by the public at large with a view to their removal or modification; I have endeavoured to emphasise the fact that, however sacred its character, marriage is a civil contract, and to show that as such it cannot be maintained at a high level of excellence without the liberty to break it when its purpose has been ignored or rendered impossible of fulfilment. I hope also to have shown that divorce is not an evil in itself, but an index of evils.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.