LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1531, 30 December 1886, Page 1

LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

; In a forcibly-written Brticle on " Falling in Love," wbich'teppeared in the October number of the Fortnightly Review, Grant Allencomb«ts Sir George Campbell's ide« that wives and husbands should bo selected for each other with a vkw to the future development of the writer points out the?great service which novelists have tendered to mankind by persistently showing that people should marry for nothing less than lore. He, also contends that although the instincts are not unerring, it is bptter on the whole that m°n 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 con--Bludes as follows :.—"'. F do no doubt that, as the world .goes on, a deeper sense of moral responsibility in the matter of marriage will,grow up among us. Bat it will not take the false direction -of ignoring these our proifoundest and holiest instincts. Marriage for money may go ; marriage for rank may go ; marriage for position ma; go ; but marriage tor loviy I brieve and trust, will last for ever. Men in the future will probably feel that a union with their cousins or near relations is positively wicked ; Jlbafial union with those, too, like them- in person or disposition is. at least undesirab'e ; that a union based upon considerations of wealth, or any other consideration, save considerations of natural impulse, is |base and disgraceful. But to the end of time they will continue to feel, in spite of doctrinaries, that the voice of nature is better far than the voiee of the Lord Chancellor or RoywkrSociety, and that the instinctive desire for a particular helpmate is a surer guide for the ultimate happiness both of the; race and of the individual than any amount of deliberate consultation. It is not the foolish fancies of youth that will be got rid of; but the foolish; wicked, and mischievous interference of parents or outsiders." "