.tl,ll#olytt,',„Oqit* sEmn isms. , . AniziyBis 0,4 tihe AversiOn,Obtaining to Second Marriages. (Frvia tbaLondost lOderit- . , T4e..s --4k entitaen . t of the agt.ls—not withot4 , , reason-pposed to . second marriages: If matrimony were essentially the social part _nershipivhich some phliosophers.would foitr. make it 7 if it were simply a form Of cove .. vent binding the parties to love, honor and obey, till divorce do part them—if it were mddeled on the plan of that reformer who. 'wanted to add as a proviso to the rrayer. - book Yew, "so long as we both.shill•lOve" —there would be no reasonable objettion to entering inte.a - seCond, third, fourth or • A , fifth partnership on the same elastic.footing... Such a dispensation, ;indeed, : would realize the view of*.late 4611. kenkeis, that "It is well to marry young and often." But, tutfUrtrinately foethit reformers and the phi _ •• • losopbeisi,_arid all other nice theorists, male andlemile, philanthroPic, free-loving and , strong-minded, society-persists in regarding .:marriages as much more solemn and spirit ;, nal contracts than this. - Much as it May Yes: the elear.sceing intellect of a Bradlaugh, society insists upon importing the providen tial elenient into the businese, and making . Heaven the witness of a contract vol. untarily entered into for eternity. Per haps society is very • wrong for all ? this—wrong in going to church •at all-Lextremely wrong to subscribe to that palaver about forsaking all others, and duty ' ins only unto him or her, as the case may be. No doubt they order these things bet , ter in Prance ' where the legal ceremony is the principal one, with church blessings thrown In ad eatorten. If we could only get married quietly and without fuss as 1 , they do, in the opera, where an ardent basso drags anunwilling soprano to a side-table, 'and is on the point of consummating the business with the aid of un Notorio and a pad•of blottingpaPer, the social economist would rejoice. Meanwhile, however, society goes on getting married at the Eagle and rivited at the communion table, andfaccept '. - ing a blessing from kpofise Of,parsons, one assisting the other with a choral force well . , • . •,*, • `The 'yoke that breathed through Eden The earliest weild,ttg-day,M . and the organ' played out the pair to- Ken delssohn"s wedding, march, ,:and all the ec clesiastical pageantry complete. It 'is hard, after_ alt this, to attempt( to 'dissociate the religious from the purely social nature of the proceeding. Let the bridegroeni, if he be given to philosophical inquiry, try to dis sociate -wife's,-presence. Let him- begin -by Obseivirig, ''After all, my dear, we are• not married in the sight of Reaven, and all that; it's only, a , foram. 46 parser; ; we have 'simply entered 'into a sort of partnesii4.-bilt,fyoratiow+f-11/rolpassocia tion witliold Jones in the Office.' Let him attempt this vein ef moralizing, and from his wife% rePIY; he ;ibie td estimate, the tooted rePutig of , society inthematter.... - This; then,' is ) the spirit which dictates_ that sentimental - aversion to second Eli riages, which is not the less general, in that it it. worda,.; Ninth:doily be ing; from the sentimental point of view, a, holy business, v abond which is not onlyto regtdatc - thislife, but in all likelihood_tonz. ercise irditience over the life to bonte;•the incongruity,- the indecency-nay, the very secrilege—of 'admitting into the spiritual ; pact . more than one partrier, is satlicientty '• t obvious. It savors of psychical polygamy. "I take Beatrice," • says Benedick; "as the i t one participant of ray weal or - woe; I take her for timeand. eternity:" Bat in a year Or two 'Beatrice, dieak.4ol then-lienedick choolies Dania - as' theleniparticimmt for time 'and eelitil waif thesurvives Laura there 4 is no thing to pretefit;:libri - adding a third r and fourth,to the , fins. : . Now, 'at ' each be trothments* sanetityor the business falls a • peg. btoboftl.,enters upon a second mar -1 - n , age wltyMnlsame reverence, aor earnest ness, or ardor with which he contracted the first. He is older and colder, familiarity with the estate haft bred indthererice; the being at his side is,'not a _trembling, pure little soul, whom all his strong, chivalrous . 4 nature,rushes .forth to ..protect, but a nice • : sort of person, who is going to look after _ his servants and see that his - linen is kept in good order. Even with the . first wife ro mance f ended, by settling down into a Darby-and-Joan, jog-trot sort of existence; t„ with the second one there is not even the romance to begin with. For few men—so few as to be out of count--make a love match twice in their lives. - The first mar :; - siege is contracted in the ardor of youth; the second is mostly a l'claletaation: Either' the widower is weary of solitude, and has. been habituated to the household order over -: which a I mistress presides; or he , ' sees ithe chance- Of a wealthy alliance; or he has •,4 property, but no heir, and must needw have one; or he wants somebody to look after his little comforts. There are &hundred mer -:) cenary pleas for a second marriage to , one '!; plea of i affection. True love—we mean now true love in its flouring bachelor state, , not the IhrbPand-,Toan jog-trot—seldom . survives' in a man fan thirty.. The truest, faithfulest hottest,' and most blissful, un "4 comfortable love - of all is calf-love, which pt seldom lastly alter ieyenteen. All sub seqrient passions 'are - a mere imitation' of .1; this—not halt so absorbin,not a thud- 'so t• blind, not a fourth so. pure. g The =calf out-'. lives his calfdota; anska few years latertries ti to produce it over again. But he never sue ,'d coeds. The taurino passion is a mere stage play: 'He may peraufide himself- that het is 0 desperately in love with the dear, that, t• she is tatigel; :that if' the r jilteff him he fi T rn! . dn. something: desperate—go mad, emigrat4-bliiii,orithis brains, perhaps; brit in his inner soul he knows that this is all a mere pretense; ; that- hie