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Rh that has become impossible. The "punishment" visited upon the married couple in their inability to longer love each other is not sufficient; for this very punishment they must be punished. They have entered into a relationship "for life," it is said. They may have done so, but they did it only in the belief that they would be happy with each other as long as possible, perhaps until death; but after they have come to recognize that they were mistaken; when, under circumstances which could not have been estimated or controlled before, they have come to know each other from a new point of view, which excludes all happiness and, therefore, the entire object of marriage, they must, even when they separate peacefully and with mutual understanding in order to seek for happiness elsewhere, be seized by a theological marriage-police and be chastised for sinning against the holy marriage relation. This is the logic of the theological conception.

The duration "for life" is the consequence of a real marriage, a happy choice; but to make it into an obligatory requirement even for an unfortunate choice is to condemn two people to lifelong misery fora momentary weakness, or an innocent chance, or a one-sided guilt, by means of the most senseless tyranny, simply in order to have them retain the name of a married couple. Sexual contact or a priestly "blessing" is to deprive two people completely of their liberty, is to make