would have been noticed! The marriage will become
intolerable. The theory will work that result; it is in the
nature of things, and that to me is everything.

Of course, I would not have man or woman sacrificed--by no means.
First of all, let every human being maintain his own position as
a self-protecting human being. At all hazards, let him never sin,
or consent to be sacrificed to the hurt of himself or of another;
and when he has taken this stand, let him act in harmony with it.
Would I say to any woman, "You are bound, because you are legally
married to one who is debased to the level of the brute, to be
the mother of his children?" I say to her, "No! while the law of
God continues, you are bound never to make one whom you do not
honor and respect, as well as love, the father of any child of
yours. It is your first and highest duty to be true to yourself,
true to posterity, and true to society." (Applause). Thus, let
each decide for himself and for herself what is right. But, I
repeat, either marriage is in its very nature a relation which,
once formed, never can be dissolved, and either the essential
obligations growing out of it exist forever, or the relation may
at any time be dissolved, and at any time those obligations be
annulled. And what are those obligations? Two persons, if I
understand marriage, covenant to work together, to uphold each
other in all excellence, and to mutually blend their lives and
interests into a common harmony. I believe that God has so made
man and woman, that it is not good for them to be alone, that
they each need a co-worker. There is no work on God's footstool
which man can do alone and do well, and there is no work which
woman can do alone and do well. (Applause). We need that the two
should stand side by side everywhere. All over the world, we need
this co-operation of the two classes--not because they are alike,
but because they are unlike--in trying to make the whole world
better. Then we need something more than these class workers. Two
persons need to stand side by side, to stay up each other's
hands, to take an interest in each other's welfare, to build up a
family, to cluster about it all the beauties and excellencies of
home life; in short, to be to each other what only one man and
one woman ca