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WIDESPREAD AND CHEAP DIVORCE.

BIRTH CONTROL THE PATH TO SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

[BY HILAI BELLOC.)

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SIR J. ELLERMAN'S JOURNALS.

NEGOTIATIONS. FOR THEIR SALE.

PRICE OF £2,000,000 OR £3,000,000,

LONDON, September 17th The Daily Mail learns that negotiations are in progress for the sale of a group of illustrated weekly and trade perio No man can prophesy: least of all odicals in which Sir John Ellerman, the the complex and capricious actions of shipping magnate, has a controlling human society. All that can be done in interest.

our guesses upon the future is to note The papers within the scope of the the tendencies of our own time and their negotiations include the Tatler, the direction, the rate of their development | Sketek, the Illustrated London News, the -their curve and to carry that curve Sphere. Eve, the Drapers Record and on with a dotted line into the unknown other trade publications. It is under time before us

stood that the sale price will be between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000.

"How far aslackening of pace, a reverzal or deflection of trace, may modify the result we cannot tell; and a factor-or many such of which we cannot dream may arise at any moment: an unexpect ed catastrophe, an unheralded religious innovator, na inexplicable wave of novel emotion. All history is a record of such obstacles to ́calculation.

Now in matters of morals and doctrine of which marriage is a necessary part -the obvious tendency of our time is not the loss of the old orthodox doctrines and a consequent departure from the old system of morals but an increasingly rapid cleavage between those who retain those doctrines, with their morals, and those who reject them.

The Prosent Tendency. There, is though the people on the other side of the gulf are often ignorant of it not only a very large but perhaps (in Western Europe, at least) an increas. ing body which adheres to, defends and more and more studies and rationally supports the traditional Christian sehene of society.

Prospective Purchaser.

that negotiations are still in progress. Sir John told a Daily Mail reporter

The price will be in the region of £,000,000," he said, and, if arrange- ments are satisfactory, the deal may be completed shortly.

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In the present state of negotiation "cannot "disclose the identity of the prospective purchaser, except to My, that the interests concerned are new to journalism

fr. William Harrison, partner of a well-known Arm of London solicitors, and a director of the Invercak Paper Mills Company, a Scottish firm, is, it was gathered in another quarter, said to be concerned in the negotiationa

Sir John Ellerman, who is the founder and chairman of the Ellerman Lines, Ltd., and its allied companies, is one of the richest men in England. He is an energetic worker and spends many hours at his City office.

During the war it was stated that the value of the shipping under the control Of those who thus act much-over-of Sir John, who is 64, axoceded whelmingly-the greater part are, in £38,000,000. He began life in AC- Western Europe (that is, in our own discountants office in Birmingham, and tinctive culture), Catholics: Christians in when still A young Тап because communion with the Roman See and ac director of the Lerland Line. In cepting all the doctrines and moral teach 1010 he carried through the biggest ing of that communion. But, lest Ideal of his career by purchasing, the should offend by using a terminology that Wilson Line, of Hull, for £5,000,000. might seem to many too narrow, I will He gave generously to war charities and write of all that side of modern life under equipped and maintained a hospital for the terms Orthodox *** Tradition disabled officers in Regent's Park, N.W. al."

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One cannot exactly draw the limits of traditional Christian doctrine and morals, to greater strictness. For instance, a if those outside the Roman Communion, but still retaining tradition, are to be included-but an elementary experience of contemporary life and the most cur- sory recollection of our immediate past can easily establish a rough boundary.

Things which were abominations and blasphemies within living memory-to Catholic and non-Catholic alike are now commonly admitted by a good half of the European world and by a very large majority in this country."

Glazing Contrast.

But the tendency is rather (with them) decree of nullity in the Roman com- munion, though still liable to abuse, is much rarer thing than in the past. In general, the traditionalists will bold fast.

What of the other camp?

....

It would seem probably that the pro- cess of regarding marriage as a con- tract, and a terminable contract, will advance with still greater speed, In this country at any rate, than in the earlier years of the century, and that all the ideas and practices which necompany that attitude will spread and strength-

口。

In the particular case of marriage the contrast is glaring To the one get mar

I see no reason why general and quite riage is essentially indissoluble and (though the word may be avoided on cheap divorce on any one of an indefnite- account of its associations) sacramental large number of grounds should not be To the other, marriage is a terminable law within our lifetimes, contract.

To the one set the distinction between marriage and aby other form of connec tion between the sexes in its inviolability, ita permanence and its sanctity. To the other set the distinction lies only in sort of official quality, creating certain legal relations and having a more or less defined social effect.

Birth Control

The regarding of marriage as no more than a temporary association may well become the rule with the mass of our town-dwelling industrial people, though presumably in this, as in other depart- ments of Christian tradition, the small agricultural minority will be more con-

acrvative,

The practice of birth-control (a thing thought too horrible to be mentioned not 40 years ago and the mere advocacy of which was heavily punished) is already general (outside the Catholic body) in all

To the one set marriage is part of s scheme in which the family is the unit of the State and individual comfort is rightly subordinated to the life of that unit. To the other marriage is not only in its inception but in its carrying on the fairly leisured classes, and I maka

To little doubt that it will be universal with: subject of individual convenience. the one (for instance) marriage becomes the weekly-wage earners of the next few uncongenial and p misfortune; the other years. an injustice.

It is interesting sto" speculate on the Under auch diverging motives, it effects of this upon Europe as a whole, would seem probable that the future and the balance of population between of marriage in our European culture North and South, particularly in the case as a whole would have two widely dif- of Ireland. The economic independence fering forms, and so I believe it will.

of the individual from the family, the The two moral worlds, into which what separation of economic interests and re. once was Christendom is so rapidly split sponsibilities of the woman and the man, ting up do not (as yet) correspond to already nearly complete, will follow in separate areas; perhaps they never will. its entirety. There is no reason in the Perhaps most nations (or districts) will new schemo wby a man should be comm contain tolerated minorities of the onepelled to support his wife any more than sort or the other.

the wife her husband.

Europe Divided.

Perhaps general laws everywhere will become permissive under the action of the "modern" or "liberal" group, so that the traditionists will maintain their views (and actions) as a private body only. Perhaps it seems far more likely -the antagonism inevitable between two such opposed schemes will present whole societies opposed in legislation to their neighbours.

In the Europe of 100 years bence you might find Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Poland, and a group of autonomus Ger- man States refusing divorce and Eng land, Scandinavia, North Germany ad- mitting it, facile and frequent,

Or again, the Europe of 100. years hance may not be a Europe of nations at all, but one State, with arrangements for opposing religions (and therefore oppos ing social schemes), to legislate for their own adherents only. But distinction of an acute kind there must be, and I can fot. See how it can escape violent Antagonism..

·Traditionalists to Hold Fast, S Allow for this and there remains the question, what will the institution of marriage become in the "modern" or liberal group1: (I use such words only for lack, as yet, of say title) What will it become among those who have ceased to regard marriage as essentially

Vast Social Revolution,

If I were asked (which perhaps I am not) to guess whether the completion of this vast social revolution already three- quarters accomplished-will lead to chaos, and, therefore, to reaction, I thould'ven ture the answer, "' No.!!

Societies worked societies of our own race worked well enough-before the Christian scheme controlled them. They will work well enough when it has ceases to control them : the words "well enough" connoting, of course, the old Pagan despair and the old Pagan cruelty, and especially the old Fagan narrowness; but not dissolution. De

Societies work well enough in their own eyes so long as they conform to their own standards. They accept the evils. accompanying their philosophies as in- evitable.; and so I think it will be with de Christianized marriage within that section of European culture which already- takes it for granted in principle and is more and more realising it in social action.

But what I do think probable is còn-, fit betweed, that sort of society and this traditional world, which will exist either as a separate area or as a dis tinct and contrasting social group. am pretty sure that one will try to kill the other.AGR.

The opposing laws will not fit in with or normally indissoluble and sacramentalf each other, the customs of the one will We know what it will become with the be at once ridiculous and horrible to the others they will remain as they are. It other. The numerical increase of the one is true that they have been affected in will make the other anzlons. The claima some small degres in the past (permit of the one will seem to the other unrea ting rare divorce in some cases, in others zonable, absurd, and perhaps in many abusing-gain, rarely the impediments cales treasonable or at least alien to marriage and granting annulmente), From such causes have all human con- and they may similarly be affected in the ficts arisen in the past and I see no future. D

reason to doubt will continue in the future.Daug. Newe

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