THE BROKEN FAMILY "Every social ill involves the enslavement of individuals.

Freedom is that phase of the social ideal which emphasizes individuality .-- All mankind acknowledges kindness as the law of right intercourse within a social group .-- The ideal of service goes with the sense of unity .-- A likeness of spirit and principle is essential to moral unity.

The creation of a moral order on an ever-growing scale is the great historical task of mankind, and the magnitude of it explains all shortcomings."-- CHARLES H.
COOLEY, in _Social Organization_.
"The sanctity of oaths Lies not in lightning that avenges them, But in the injury wrought by broken bonds And in the garnered good of human trust.
'Tis a compulsion of the higher sort, Whose fetters are the net invisible That holds all life together.
'Tis faithfulness that makes the life we choose Breathe high and see a full-arched firmament.
We may see ill But over all belief is faithfulness Which fulfils vision with obedience.
No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good; 'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings A human music from the indifferent air." -- GEORGE ELIOT.
"Genuine government is but the expression of a nation Good or less good; even as all society Is but the expression of men's single lives-- The loud sum of the silent units."-- E.B.

BROWNING.
"There is no other genuine enthusiasm than one which has travelled the common highway--the life of the good man and woman, the good neighbor, the good citizen."-- THOMAS GREEN HILL.
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.

Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom." -- SHAKESPEARE.
=The Problems of Divorce.=--Having treated in some detail the subject of "Problems of Marriage and Divorce" in a former book, _Woman's Share in Social Culture_, and also in articles published in _The International Journal of Ethics_, _The Harvard Theological Review_, _Harper's Weekly_, and other magazines, this chapter, to avoid repetition, will simply rehearse in brief outline the points of view previously expressed.
In the valuable and suggestive treatment of the family by Professor Ellwood in his book, _Sociology and Modern Social Problems_, he says that "divorce is but a symptom of more serious evils that in certain classes of American society have apparently undermined the very virtues upon which the family life subsists." If that be so, then no tinkering with the laws which aim at preventing divorces will reach the seat of the difficulty.