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 anomalies of our present divorce laws. Divorce will, in all probability, be much less frequently asked for under a reorganised society; but it will be made more easy of accomplishment. For if, after marriage, it is discovered that two people are absolutely incompatible in temperament, having acquired an unconquerable aversion for one another; if one or the other is found to be faithless, sexually impotent, imbecile or immoral—to the injury and detriment of either—the sufferer shall have complete dissolution of the contract with leave to enter into another marriage. And this shall apply equally to men and women. Women shall not have to prove two charges and men only one. Separation laws shall be done away with altogether. Legal separation without permission to re-marry is a danger to morality, for all men and women were not made for celibacy. No stigma shall be permitted to rest upon the blameless children of divorced parents as now. The children will belong more to the State than to the parents, and a righteous State will not visit the sins or the misfortunes of the parents upon the children.

One very necessary thing which Socialism