Affected coldness, which in your day rarely deceived a lover, would deceive him wholly now, for no one thinks of practicing it." "One result which must follow from the independence of women I can see for myself," I said.

"There can be no marriages now except those of inclination." "That is a matter of course," replied Dr.Leete.
"Think of a world in which there are nothing but matches of pure love! Ah me, Dr.Leete, how far you are from being able to understand what an astonishing phenomenon such a world seems to a man of the nineteenth century!" "I can, however, to some extent, imagine it," replied the doctor.

"But the fact you celebrate, that there are nothing but love matches, means even more, perhaps, than you probably at first realize.

It means that for the first time in human history the principle of sexual selection, with its tendency to preserve and transmit the better types of the race, and let the inferior types drop out, has unhindered operation.
The necessities of poverty, the need of having a home, no longer tempt women to accept as the fathers of their children men whom they neither can love nor respect.

Wealth and rank no longer divert attention from personal qualities.