The Greastest Blot of all.

The greatest blot oa our law upon this subjuct the distinction made to the disadvantage [unclear: of] wife in refusing to allow her an equal right [unclear: th] the husband to divorce on the ground of [unclear: altery]. That the law of England should [unclear: be] last stronghold of this shameful doctrine is [unclear: eed] remarkable, and it is directly [unclear: traceable] the influence of sacerdotalism : for it is [unclear: to] State, not to the Church, that woman owes [unclear: e] improvement in her position, and the State [unclear: nnot] much longer allow a mere superstition to [unclear: event] the removal of this injustice. The [unclear: called] reason for the distinction.

Periculum matris conquinari regias,

Contaminari stirpem ac miscere genus.

no reason at all, except on the purtly [unclear: ysical] ecclesiastical conception of marriage. [unclear: is] mere pretext maintained by the long [unclear: e] of legislators and judges, all men who have emnly declared that the sin most serious [unclear: in] woman is in a man the moat venial. The [unclear: d] Ecclesiastical Court of Italy had such a firm belief in cardinals that before it would believe in the adultery of one of these dignitaries it required the evidence of seven eye witnesses. We can smile at this, but in not the rule that a wife cannot get a divorce for her husband's adultery tainted with the same vice? Both illustrate the maxim, "No one is a good judge in his own cause."