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ATTACK ON INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE. CRITICISM BY DEAN INGE. IY C.ABT.E —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON, Sept. 14. “The institution of monogamous marriage is everywhere being assailed and views arc widely expressed, particularly in fiction, undermining the whole basis of .Christian marriage,’’ says Dean [Age in an outspoken article in the “Evening Standard.’’ “Tlie theory of the popular novelist I.nd of a large section of society is that marriage is only moral during the duration of physical attraction. If love, or rather lust) is transferred to another obiect, the marriage tie can be broken without scruple. Popplar novels of today twenty years hence may be completely excluded from decent houses, md the authors will be rightly served ■f this oblivion overtakes them. “My own opinion is that marriages bit ween an adulterer and his paramour ■v.-ght not to be allowed even by Ihe State, but I should hesitate to say no .■■-conduct, except that of infidelity should bo recognised by the Church as ■sufficient cause for divorce.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 September 1927, Page 5
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168POPULAR NOVELS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 September 1927, Page 5
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