But that was before my time.

When I grew up, I found the husbands and wives about me content to acknowledge that the Rules fulfilled the purpose with which they had been made--the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

It all looks very absurd, I dare say, from your point of view.

But these queer regulations of ours answer the Christian test--by their fruits ye shall know them.

Our married people don't live on separate sides of the house; our children are all healthy; wife-beating is unknown among us; and the practice in our divorce court wouldn't keep the most moderate lawyer on bread and cheese.