For a long time the relations between them had been coming apart, but she had not possessed courage enough to face them, in the belief that matters mend themselves with the passage of time. In plainer terms, their marriage had begun to dissolve before the complete separation, because it was a maimed marriage, and that is what led to those crises, and finally to divorce.

And the story reaches deeper still: the marriage, then, stands upon the ruins of cracked foundations, and divorce is the last act after a chain of decay. It is like death, which comes only after the living atoms of the body have wasted away and the ember of life in its veins has gone out.

Thus the sacred flame of love is extinguished, and the friendship dies, and with it the bond that joins the two spouses in mutual responsibilities and respect, so that these relations no longer mean anything to either of them.

It is well known that the preventive treatment of diseases is not found in hospitals; rather we must wage a fierce war against diseases, teaching the ways of health to the woman in the kitchen and to the man in the workshop, so that vitality, renewal, and daily growth may continue on both sides. For marriage is a living thing: it must breathe pure air, be nourished with wholesome food, receive its share of complete rest, and be kept clean so that the germs of decay do not creep into it. Happiness does not lie in material things alone but in the things of the spirit as well; and after the need for food comes the need for love. The two spouses must set out into the battle of life, in order to win, side by side, for division breeds ruin and misery, and sometimes death; and if the care comes from one side only, the other becomes a burden weighing on the partner's shoulders and sapping his strength.

And the wife plays an important part, for she sends into her husband's soul the resolve and the drive to carry out his work; however successful he may be at his labors, he is counted wretched if he loses the domestic comfort he desires. He wants her affection, her tenderness, and her companionship in crossing the hardships of life, just as she needs his strength and his protection in her own life.

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What is the middling or maimed marriage? It is a raw marriage whose obscure problems have gone unsolved; its rent widens and

deepens until the curse falls not only on the two spouses but on the innocent children and on clamorous society. Spouses in such a state feel no safety or stability: in their depths there is a pent-up storm, and they pass the nights on live coals awaiting its blast and the explosion of the atoms latent in their breasts.

This kind of marriage is like an apple that exactly resembles its fellows on the outside, except that the worm is eating its heart; and one day the winds of misfortune are bound to blow and shake its roots, find it weak, and cast it to the ground — and the

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