Such sins are the commonplaces of the confessional.
It is a curious fact that by some subtlety of logic in the Christian world, it has come to be believed that there can be no love outside the conventional process of courtship and marriage.

One life, one love, is the Christian idea, and into this sluice or mold it has been endeavoring to compress the whole world.

Pagan thought held no such belief.

A writing of divorce for trivial causes was the theory of the elders; and in the primeval world nature apparently holds no scheme for the unity of two beyond the temporary care of the young.

That the modern home is the most beautiful of schemes, when based upon mutual sympathy and understanding between two, need not be questioned.