Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine

Project Gutenberg's Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine, by T. S. Arthur This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine Author: T. S. Arthur Posting Date: August 30, 2009 [EBook #4626] Release Date: November, 2003 First Posted: February 20, 2002 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARRIED LIFE *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo. HTML version by Al Haines. MARRIED LIFE: ITS SHADOWS AND SUNSHINE BY T. S. ARTHUR. PHILADELPHIA: 1852. PREFACE. THE highest, purest, best and holiest relation in life is that of marriage, which ought never to be regarded as a mere civil contract, entered into from worldly ends, but as an essential union of two minds, by which each gains a new power, and acquires! new capacities for enjoyment and usefulness. Much has been said and written about the equality of the sexes, and the rights of woman; but little of all that has been said or written on this subject is based upon a discriminating appreciation of the difference between man and woman; a difference provided by the Creator, who made them for each other, and stamped upon the spirit of each an irresistible tendency towards conjunction.