For such people marriages exist, but to us they are only hypocrisy and violence.

We feel it, and, to clear ourselves, we preach free love; but, really, to preach free love is only a call backward to the promiscuity of the sexes (excuse me, he said to the lady), the haphazard sin of certain raskolniks.

The old foundation is shattered; we must build a new one, but we must not preach debauchery." He grew so warm that all became silent, looking at him in astonishment.
"And yet the transition state is terrible.

People feel that haphazard sin is inadmissible.

It is necessary in some way or other to regulate the sexual relations; but there exists no other foundation than the old one, in which nobody longer believes?
People marry in the old fashion, without believing in what they do, and the result is falsehood, violence.