Scotch Morality
'-"*- -,' ■ ' ,*lZami«U M in the Auckland Star, Mju.:— Among 1 ttie mary things for «rhi<ih Scotland ' ftnU Scotcbmen are 4^famous, but- whiclKlh^ "iUtd man," who was the life and* soul of the Kennedy family, did not tell us about, was the feet that, Respite its severe j theology, the North Hritainers • re the most practical exponents of free love principles in the throe kingdoms . '1 he statistics of illegitimacy, I note, again place Scotland at the head of che eivilis- d world I n one A berdeenshire parish actually one-half of the birth* were unblessed ; in a parish of iNairn-one-fitth, and a country of W igtown one-fifth. How do Scotchmen account for this ? Are the peculiarities o ' tuo Scottish msrriage law attd its purely secular character respoiiHible, .pr is it due to the conditions under which ih«rural populauou herd together n suiall dwellings, irrespective of sex ? It is a cuvious subject for inquiry, and I present it with my compliments _ for the winter course in o'ti-e ,or other oi our rresbyteria'n debiitmg societies ;
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 58, 17 May 1884, Page 3
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174Scotch Morality Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 58, 17 May 1884, Page 3
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