MODERN MARRIAGES

Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 5

MODERN MARRIAGES

DEAN INGE SPEAKS OUT

NOVELISTS ATTACKED

Press Associatiou —By Telegraph---Copyright,

LONDON, September 11

“ The institution of monogamous marriage is everywhere assailed, and views aro widely expressed, particularly in fiction, undermining tho whole basis of Christian marriage,” says Dean ingo, in an outspoken article in tho ‘Evening Standard.’ “Tho theory of the popular novelist and a largo 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 tho marriage tic can be broken without scruple. The popular novels of to-day may twenty years hence ho complctciv excluded Ji’om decent h ousos, and tho authors will bo rightly served if this oblivion overtakes _ them. My own opinion is that marriage between an adulterer and his paramor ought not ‘to be allowed, even by the State, but I should hesitate to say that no misconduct except infidelity shonld_ bo recognised by the Church ns a sufficient cause for divorce.”