Mr. Justice Collier.

"While no evils would attend the legalization of such marriages, the evils of prohibiting them were very great. It must be an inconvenience where the law was inoperative and ineffectual, where it was disregarded not merely by those who were in a state of moral antagonism to all laws, but by men who conscientiously held that marriage was a Divine institution, and that they had no right to fetter it by a number of arbitrary restrictions."—Speech of Sir R. P. Collier, M.P.