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Marriage and Morals

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4741392Marriage and Morals1929Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

Marriage
and
Morals

Liveright Publishing Corporation
New York

Copyright, 1929, by Horace Liveright, Inc.
Manufactured in the U. S. A.

CONTENTS

I Why a Sexual Ethic Is Necessary 3
II Where Fatherhood Is Unknown 14
III The Dominion of the Father 25
IV Phallic Worship, Asceticism and Sin 33
V Christian Ethics 44
VI Romantic Love 63
VII The Liberation of Women 78
VIII The Taboo on Sex Knowledge 93
IX The Place of Love in Human Life 118
X Marriage 130
XI Prostitution 145
XII Trial Marriage 156
XIII The Family at the Present Day 168
XIV The Family in Individual Psychology 189
XV The Family and the State 204
XVI Divorce 221
XVII Population 240
XVIII Eugenics 254
XIX Sex and Individual Well-Being 274
XX The Place of Sex Among Human Values 288
XXI Conclusion 303

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