MARRIAGE CENSORSHIP.
A marriage censorship was recently advocated in his sermon at Harrow by the Rev. W. H. G. Shapcott, chaplain at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. He dealt with the characters of Jacob and Esau, and said that neither philosophy nor religion had an answer to the question as to the difference in temperament and character of brothers of the same family. It was entirely a question 'of heredity, because people would not understand and shape their lives in accordance with the laws of Nature. They must get rid of this Baal worship of individual liberty on this question, and they ought to take as much trouble and pains in arranging their marriages as they did in breeding racehorses. They were breeding knaves and fools all over the place ; freaks were producing freaks ; souls were damned from the moment they were born, and all because of the conventions of society of a Christian people. There should be a censorship by a higher power, who should prevent marriages -between the unfit: the parties should be told plainly that for the good of the human race they were unfit for the marriage state. _ In conclusion, Mr, Shapcott said that in the so-called wickedest city on the Continent he had not seen a hundredthousandth part of what went on in London and provincial towns.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 12
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220MARRIAGE CENSORSHIP. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 12
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