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Title: Three Things

Author: Elinor Glyn

Release Date: April 28, 2008 [EBook #25215]

Language: English

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THREE THINGS

BY

ELINOR GLYN

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

INTRODUCTION
I THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
II THE GOSPEL OF COMMON SENSE
III MARRIAGE
IV AFTER MARRIAGE
V SHOULD DIVORCE BE MADE EASIER?
VI THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTHERHOOD
VII THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTHERHOOD. SECOND PAPER

INTRODUCTION

I have called this little collection of articles which I have written
"THREE THINGS" because to me there seem to be just three essentials to
strive after in life. Truth--Common Sense and Happiness. To be able to
see the first enables us to employ the second, and so realise the
third. And in these papers I have tried to suggest some points which
may be of use to others who, like myself, are endeavouring to reason
out ideas to a good end.

How often one sees people who could be very happy, and who yet with
incredible blindness and stupidity are running their heads against
stone walls (or feather beds!) and destroying all chance of peace for
themselves, their mates, and their households!

Everything is very simple when it is analysed down to what nature
meant in the affair--and by doing this one gets a broader perspective.

For instance, nature meant one thing in the connection of man and
woman--and civilisation has grafted quite another meaning into it, and
the two things are often at war in the State called marriage! In the
chapters devoted to this subject I have tried to exploit some points
which are not generally faced, in the hope that if understood they
might help towar