Monday, January 14, 2008

On Arranged Marriage

Book 2, Chapter 11

"Nothing better serves to justify adultery, either to the mind of the adulterer or to society at large, than a marriage made by compulsion or chance.

"In a country in which a woman is always free to exercise her choice and where education has prepared her to choose rightly, public opinion is unforgiving of her faults. The high moral standards of the Americans arises in part from this cause. They consider marriage as a covenant which is often onerous, but which strictly binds both parties because they knew all those conditions beforehand, and were perfectly free not to have taken them on. "

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