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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87

The First Lord Wharncliffe

The First Lord Wharncliffe.

"My lords, in the marriage of a husband with his deceased wife's sister, first of all, clearly there is no blood relationship, and, in the next place, who on earth is more likely to make the children of the deceased wife a better, a more proper, a more careful page 33 mother, than the sister of their mother? If your lordships look at it in a moral point of view, I have no doubt whatever that the interests of morality and the state of society in this country will be preserved in a much better state by allowing a deceased wife's sister to marry the husband."