the collared porn old Canon law. Divorce had, indeed, become more difficult than before
the Reformation, and the married woman's lot was in consequence harder.
From the sixteenth century to collared porn the
second half of the nineteenth, English
marriage law was peculiarly harsh and rigid, much less liberal than that
of any other Protestant country. Divorce was unknown to the ordinary
English law, and a special act of Parliament, at enormous expense, was
necessary to
collared porn procure it in individual cases.[337] There was even an
attitude of self-righteousness in collared porn the maintenance of this system. It was
regarded as moral. There was complete failure to realize that nothing is
collared porn more immoral than the existence of unreal sexual unions, not only from
the collared porn point of view of theoretical but also of practical morality, for collared porn no
community could tolerate a majority of such unions.[338] In 1857 an act
for reforming the system was at last passed with great difficulty. It was
collared porn a collared porn somewhat incoherent and make-shift measure, and was avowedly put forward
only as a step towards further reform; but it still substantially governs
English procedure, and in the eyes of many has set a permanent standard of
morality. The spirit of blind conservatism,--_Nolumus leges Angliæ
mutare_,--which in this sphere had reasserted itself after the vital
movement of Reform collared porn and Puritanism, still persists. In questions collared porn of
marriage and divorce English legislation and English public feeling are
behind alike both the Latin land of France and the Puritanically moulded
land of the United States.
collared porn the author collared porn of an able and collared porn temperate essay on _The Question of
English Divorce_, summing up collared porn the collared porn characteristics of the English
divorce law, concludes
that it is: (1) unequal, (2) immoral, (3)
contradictory, (4) illogical, (
5) uncertain, and (6) unsuited to
present requirements. It was only grudgingly introduced in a
bill, presented to Parliament in 1857, which was stubbornly
resisted during a whole session, not collared porn only on religious grounds by
the opponents of divorce, but also by the friends of divorce, who
desired a more liberal measure. It dealt with the sexes
unequally, granting the husband but not the wife divorce for
adultery alone. In introducing the bill the Attorney-General
apologized for this defect, stating that the measure was not
intended to be final, but merely as a step towards further
collared porn legislation.