WHOLE BASIS OF MARRIAGE MENACED

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3615, 16 September 1927, Page 7

WHOLE BASIS OF MARRIAGE MENACED

Dean Inge Speaks Out Against Modern Novel “AFFECTION” TREATED AS COMMODITY [By Electric Cable-Copyright] (Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Thursday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, sept. 14. “The institution of monogamous marriage is everywhere assailed. Yet views are widely expressed particularly in fiction undermining the whole basis of Christian marriage,” says Dean Ingle in an outspoken article in the “Evening Standard.” "The theory of the popular novelist and 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 object the marriage tie can be broken without scruple. “Popular novels of to-day," declares the Dean, “twenty years hence may bo completely excluded from decent houses. Their authors will oe rightly served if this oblivion overtakes thorn. “My own opinion is that a marriage between an adulterer and his paramour ought not to bo allowed even by the State. But I should hesitate to say that no misconduct except Infidelity should bo recognised by the Church as a sufficient cause for divorce.’’