The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1

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Honoré de Balzac. The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

FIRST PART. A GENERAL CONSIDERATION

MEDITATION I. THE SUBJECT

MEDITATION II. MARRIAGE STATISTICS

MEDITATION III. OF THE HONEST WOMAN

MEDITATION IV. OF THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN

MEDITATION V. OF THE PREDESTINED

MEDITATION VI. OF BOARDING SCHOOLS

MEDITATION VII. OF THE HONEYMOON

MEDITATION VIII. OF THE FIRST SYMPTOMS

MEDITATION IX. EPILOGUE

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"Marriage is not an institution of nature. The family in the east is entirely different from the family in the west. Man is the servant of nature, and the institutions of society are grafts, not spontaneous growths of nature. Laws are made to suit manners, and manners vary.

"Marriage must therefore undergo the gradual development towards perfection to which all human affairs submit."

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Physiology, for the third and last time I ask you – What is your meaning?

So far everything is commonplace as the pavement of the street, familiar as a crossway. Marriage is better known than the Barabbas of the Passion. All the ancient ideas which it calls to light permeate literature since the world is the world, and there is not a single opinion which might serve to the advantage of the world, nor a ridiculous project which could not find an author to write it up, a printer to print it, a bookseller to sell it and a reader to read it.

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