Excerpt from Divorce (to-Day and to-Morrow)<br><br>The trivial attention given to the history of the law in this country is largely responsible for much misunderstanding of the present demand for divorce reform. It is felt passionately that something sacred is being tampered with, so that at once a panic of timidity clouds the intelligence and whips the con sciences of many sincere people, who, without inquiry and without proof, take it for granted that as our marriage laws now are, so were they in the beginning, and, therefore, must be held to be sacred and unalter able, and ought to go on without interference from the sacrilegious hand of the reformer.<br><br>There is, of course, a reason for this. Not only is there prejudice to encounter, which on no question, perhaps, is so obstinate as it is on this one; but we have to deal with many different, and often Opposed.<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.