Karezza, Ethics of Marriage: Chap. 8: Married and Mated
It is the woman of you and not the physical body which is the wife. Karezza develops a closer bond of union between husband and wife. They two are united for life; they enter the marriage relation thoughtfully with the hope of happiness and mutual helpfulness. But what a travesty is the usual marriage upon the one idealized, not only in song and story, but in every loving heart. How soon many hearts are broken and many hopes blasted, and that mainly because the sexual Painful recitals of unwritten annals of the lives of those who endure in silence or seek relief through the courts from wrongs inflicted upon them would fill volumes. Better knowledge of the relations between husband and wife would avoid these conditions. There are earnest, intelligent people today who have come to believe that marriage can be lifted to a plane of spiritual companionship far exceeding any pleasure known to the merely physical. There can be no marriage unless attraction, affinity and harmony first exist in the soul. True union, indeed, depends on a psychic law; and its permanence upon the spiritual element that pervades it. The clerk's certificate, the wedding ring, the priest's blessing, cannot make two individuals That night and days following we were both thoughtfully silent. When I had read the Better Way, I asked him to peruse it, saying to him: "For you, Dora, I will read it, but you must not be too sure that I will accept any newfangled notions," he replied. The book certainly interested him, for he did not retire until it was finished. The babe had been restless, and though he knew I had not slept, he never spoke a word. Days and nights passed and the subject was not broached. I felt that I had done my part, and it was for him to speak. It came over me with an inexpressible horror that, in according our lives to Newton's theory, he felt, I was exercising a tyranny and coercion MARRIED AND MATED.
Nature is a system of nuptials. All exist as the offspring or product of a marriage. - Grindon
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