Other considerations arise when the [unclear: i] of children have to be considered, for [unclear: the] ness and welfare of the children is [unclear: one] great ends of marriage, Where [unclear: there] children it is difficult to se on [unclear: what] (apart from theological dogmas) [unclear: the] should interfere at all to prevent [unclear: dissol] the marriage contract at the will of [unclear: the p] when the union completely fails [unclear: to] its purpose—the promotion of [unclear: happiness] such cases, neither the interests of [unclear: the] nor the good of society is promoted by [unclear: p] ing dissolution. But where there [unclear: are] it is impossible to exaggerate the [unclear: important] maintaining the permanence of [unclear: the] the parents, on whose example so much [unclear: de] and the purity of the bome, in [unclear: whi] foundations of character are laid. [unclear: B] home-life Is an impossibility where [unclear: the] the parents entirely misses its real [unclear: end] any cause that renders the marriage [unclear: ho] unhappy. It cannot be suggested [unclear: that] is the only violation of toe [unclear: conjugal] that produces this result; for [unclear: whislt] doubt true that this offence tends [unclear: to] upon the character that baleful influence Burns deplores in the exclamation—

But, oh ! it deaderns a' within

And petrifles the feelin'.