enforced chastity of
woman, but in her love, will man gain his new redemption.

FOOTNOTES:

[318] Velazquez is known to us only by the name of his mother; his
father's name was de Silva.

[319] I have taken these passages from the chapter on "The Women of
Galicia," in my _Spain Revisited_.

[320] _Man and Woman_, p. 377; Moebius, _Stachylogie_, 1901.

[321] The passage occurs in a lecture by Prof. Thomson and Mrs.
Thomson on "The Position of Woman Biologically Considered," and was
one of a series delivered in Edinburgh to consider and estimate the
recent changes in the position of woman. The addresses have been
published in a book entitled _The Position of Woman, Actual and
Ideal_.

[322] _Sexual Life of Our Times_, p. 74.

[323] _Sex and Society_, pp. 306, 307.

[324] Quoted by Bloch, _Sexual Life of Our Times_, p. 80.

[325] _Sexual Life of Our Times_, pp. 80, 81.

CONTENTS OF CHAPTER X

THE SOCIAL FORMS OF THE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP

I.--_Marriage_

The difficulty of the problem of marriage--Facts to be
considered--Marriage and the family among the animals--Among
primitive peoples--Progress from lower to higher forms of the
sexual association--An examination of the purpose of
marriage--The fear of hasty reforms--Practical
morality--Marriage an institution older than mankind--The
practical moral ends of marriage--The racial and individual
factors--No real antagonism between the two--What is good for
the individual must react also for the benefit of the
race--Various systems of marriage--Monogamy the form that has
prevailed--The higher law of the true marriage--Conventional
monogamic marriage--Its failure in practical
morality--Coexistence with polygamy and prostitution--Chief
grounds for the reform of marriage--An indictment by Mr.
Wells--Our marriage system based upon the rights of
property--This not necessarily evil--The Egyptian marriage
contracts--The Roman marriage--The influence of
Christianity--Asceticism and the glorification of
virginity--Confusions and absurdities--The failure of our
sexual morality--Mammon marriages--Sins against the race--Two
examples from my own experience--The iniquity of our bastardy
laws--The waste of love--Free-love--Its failure as a
practical solution--The reform of marriage--The tendency to
place the form of the sexual re