'You two will do well to marry; we see it, if you don't.

Just think of it, will you ?' You may laugh; some of our happiest marriages have been made in that way.

Our governors in council act on an established principle: here it is in a nutshell.

The results of experience in the matter of marriage, all over the world, show that a really wise choice of a husband or a wife is an exception to the rule; and that husbands and wives in general would be happier together if their marriages were managed for them by competent advisers on either side.

Laws laid down on such lines as these, and others equally strict, which I have not mentioned yet, were not put in force, Mr.Hethcote, as you suppose, without serious difficulties--difficulties which threatened the very existence of the Community.