...eries Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... and nobody likes to give. What is driving our minis- ters of religion and statesmen to blurt it out at last is the plain fact that marriage is now be... ...inds nor their bodies to the full pitch of their capacities. Compared with statesmen, first- rate professional men, artists, and even with laborers an... ...te to draft statutes, but by persuading it that a certain minister and his cabinet are gifted with suffi- cient political sagacity to find out how to ... ...wondered at that the mere mention of the marriage question makes a British Cabinet shiver with apprehension and hastily pass on to safer business. Nev... ...rom inveterate habit even when they are comfortable. But their unfortunate spouses and children can- not escape from them. SPURIOUS “NATURAL” AFFECTIO... ...f ascertaining that every possible effort has been made to keep the couple united against their wills, such privacy will only be tolerated when we at ... ...time that they have long since lost interest in one another, and have been united only by a common interest in their children. We may expect, then, th...

...ing it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...rvenir is nothing but a tissue and a mass of filth, and the too celebrated Cabinet Satyrique proves what, under Louis XIII., could be written, printed... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...om he found upon his knees bareheaded, crouching in a little corner of his cabinet, and humbly praying unto God that he would vouchsafe to as- suage t... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome... ...making wills and codicils; bemoaned their fortune and the absence of their spouses and friends at Rome, when it was absolutely neces- sary for them to...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....