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    Shelley and the Marriage Question
    Shelley and the Marriage Question
    Shelley and the Marriage Question
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    Shelley and the Marriage Question

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Shelley and the Marriage Question - John Todhunter

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      Title: Shelley and the Marriage Question

      Author: John Todhunter

      Release Date: October 16, 2010 [eBook #34085]

      Language: English

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      SHELLEY AND MARRIAGE.

      Of this Book

      Twenty-Five Copies only have been printed.

      SHELLEY

      AND

      THE MARRIAGE QUESTION.

      BY

      JOHN TODHUNTER, M.D.,

      Author of Notes on The Triumph of Life, A Study of Shelley, etc.

      London:

      PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY.

      1889.

      SHELLEY AND THE MARRIAGE QUESTION.

      Now that marriage, like most other time-honoured institutions, has come to stand, a thing accused, at the bar of public opinion, it may be interesting to see what Shelley has to say about it. The marriage problem is a complex one, involving many questions not very easy to answer offhand or even after much consideration. What is marriage? Of divine or human institution? For what ends was it instituted? How far does it attain these ends? And a dozen others involved in these.

      The very idea of marriage implies some kind of bond imposed by society upon the sexual relations of its members, male and female; some kind of restriction upon the absolute promiscuity and absolute instability of these relations—such restriction taking the form of a contract between individuals, endorsed by society, and enforced with more or less stringency by public opinion. Its object at first was probably simply to ensure to each male member of the tribe the quiet enjoyment of his wife or wives, and the free exploitation of the children she or they produced. The patriarchal tyranny was established, and through the sanction of primitive religion and law became a divine institution. Then, as civilization progressed, the wife and children became less and less the mere slaves, more and more the respected subjects, of the patriarch. The paternal instinct (like the maternal) became developed, and family

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