Inasmuch, then, as incompatibility of temper defeats the two great objects of marriage, it should be the primal cause for divorce.
"The true standpoint from which to view this question is individual sovereignty, individual happiness.

It is often said that the interests of society are paramount, and first to be considered.
This was the Roman idea, the Pagan idea, that the individual was made for the State.

The central idea of barbarism has ever been the family, the tribe, the nation--never the individual.

But the great doctrine of Christianity is the right of individual conscience and judgment.

The reason it took such a hold on the hearts of the people was because it taught that the individual was primary; the State, the Church, society, the family, secondary.