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alienated must not bestow life on any new being.
Marriages lightly entered into are many;
lightly entered into divorces are few, at least
where there are children. It is not the
prescriptions of the law, but those of blood which
work as a restraining influence here even at
the present day. The decisive sentence is not
spoken by society but by the children. But
these deep motives are just as decisive in the
case of a free union as in the case of a legal
one; if the father or the mother is only kept
with the children by compulsion, the children
have not much to lose. The important thing
for unwritten duties, duties which largely can
not be determined by law, is to awaken the
conscience of fathers and mothers in order to
create a better morality. Perhaps for this,
new legislation is necessary for the present.
Certainly antiquated legal conceptions should
be done away with; they have done good duty
as a past training for morality. Now they
stand in the way of the higher morality. The
man or the woman who plays the role of
seduction, spoiling the life of a young woman
or a young man, or disturbing the peace of
a happy marriage, this type of character, is
being treated with ever-increasing contempt.
The more one learns to distinguish the
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