FALLING IN LOVE.
In a forcibly-written article on " Falling in Love," which appeared in the October number of the Fortnightly Review, Grant Allencombats Sir George Campbell's ideas that wivesand husbands should be selected for each other with a view to the future development of the race. In one part of the article the writer points out the great service which novelists have rendered to mankind by persistently showing that people should marry for nothing less than love. He also contends that although the instincts are not unerring, it is better on the whole that men and women should be left to follow their instincts with reference to marriage than that there should be any artificial selection of husbands and wives. The article concludes as follows : — " I do not doubt that as the world goes on a deeper sense of moral responsibility in the matter of mairiage will grow up among us. But it will not take the false direction of ignoring these our profoundest and holiest instincts. Marriage for money may go ; marriage for rank may go ; marriage for position may go ; but marriage for love, I believe and trust, will last for ever. Men in the future will probably feel that a union with their cousins or near relatives is positively wicked ; that a union with thoso too like them in person or disposition is undesirable ; that a union based upon consideration of wealth, or any other consideration save considerations ol natural impulse, is base and disgraceful. But to the end of time they will continue to feel, in spite of doctrinairies, that the voico of nature is better than the voico of the Lord Chancellor or the Royal Society, and that the instinctive desire for a particular helpmate is a surer guide for the ultimate happiness of both the race and of tho individual than any amount of dolibi'rati; consultation. It is not the foolish fancier of youth that will have to be got rid of, but the foolish, wicked, and mischievous interference of parents or outsiders."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4769, 21 January 1887, Page 2
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339FALLING IN LOVE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4769, 21 January 1887, Page 2
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