rmoniously in conjugal union. Questions of heredity, procreation and
education will be dealt with calmly and freely. This will be certainly
more moral than the present conversations between betrothed couples,
"well-brought up," who, apart from certain conventional degrees of
flirtation, hardly dare mention anything but commonplaces.

A young man of talent, who wishes to continue his studies, will not be
prevented from marrying. He may, for example, marry at twenty-four a
young girl of eighteen and continue his studies till he is twenty-six.
The inconvenience will be slight, for the habits of life will be
simpler, and he can easily, by anticonceptional measures, avoid having
children for a year or two.

What will marriage be like? First of all, all useless luxury and
conventional formality will be reduced to a minimum. The husband and
wife will both work, either together, or each on their own account,
according to circumstances. Part of the work will naturally be devoted
to the children. As at present, the husband will be able to
participate in the personal education of the children, if he is more
disposed than the wife.

Equality in the rights of the two sexes and matriarchy (vide Chapter
XIII) will not render conjugal relations less intimate, but will, on
the contrary, deepen their roots by raising their moral value. There
will be less time to shine in society; dinner-parties and society
functions of all kinds will be unknown; these things are for the idle
rich, who have time to kill and money to spend. If a friend comes, and
there is time to receive him and something for him to eat, he will be
invited to take "potluck" with his family.

Clothes will be simple, comfortable and hygienic. Dwellings will be
artistic, aesthetic and scrupulously clean. Pomp and luxury are not
art, and are sometimes so overdone that they wound the most elementary
sense of aesthetics.

If the occupation of the married couple or the number of their
children render domestic servants necessary, the latter will not have
the same position in the family as our present servants. Their
education and social position being the same as those of the members
of the family, they will take the position of companions rather than
servants. No domestic work will be considered as degrading.

If the marriage is sterile, the conjoints will adopt orphans or
children from other large families. In certain cases, of which we have
spoken, concubinage may be pre