t-sighted ones,
that human evolution is slow, albeit it is likewise inevitable.

They are like those who, viewing the wrecking of a ruined habitation,
condemned by the Board of Public Safety, try to stop the process of
the workers; they do not know that when the ground shall have been
cleared, a finer, more sightly, and above all, more habitable building
will be put up on the same ground; and anything from the old
architecture that was worthy of preservation will be used in the new
building.

The dug-outs of our antedeluvian ancestors were designed to protect
them from the destructive forces of storm and wave and also from their
brothers, the enemy; and although our ideas of what constitutes a
desirable dwelling-place have evolved to our modern ideal of a home,
rather than a shelter, yet the fundamental concept remains. A study of
history should be encouraging if only to prove that no radical changes
in human ethics have ever been forced upon us. Verily, the "gods wait
upon men" and until there is something like a concerted demand for
improved conditions, they stand just outside the door waiting to be
bidden, "Enter, Friend."

As with mental ideas, so it is with ethical ideals. Until there is a
more general demand for a higher concept of marriage, it is quite
certain that the world will worry along with the one which now does
duty for the majority, although it must be admitted that the poor
thing gives evidence of much decrepitude and suffers from as many
complaints as a hypochondriac.

But, the fact that marriage in some form has prevailed as one of the
fundamental necessities of human ethics, ever since the beginning of
recorded history, and doubtless before that, is, we believe, very
satisfactory evidence that marriage has a permanent place in social
and individual evolution. What that place is, can be deduced from a
study of the history of marriage.

There are two different viewpoints from which we may discuss all
phases of Life, namely, the mystical and the ethical. The mystic sees
all life from the inside, as it were; and the physicist studies the
exterior, the appearance. To the mystic, the visible, or external,
world is a succession of symbols, which he must interpret. To him, the
everlasting and fundamental truths of the Cosmos are told in a
succession of moving pictures. In fact, the mystic has long
anticipated the art which we now see manifested in our film-theatres
and has realized that the scenes, wh