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manded "union for procreation only." On the first night of the marriage the husband learned this and realized his bitter mistake. He was a loyal and conscientious man and remained faithful till after the birth of four children, when his wife refused to have any more. Then for twenty years he was permitted no unions and no pleasantness or human endearments. After some years he resorted to prostitutes, as his health suffered. Then he fell seriously in love and desired freedom to marry, but his wife refused absolutely to divorce him. He has no redress. Nocturnal emissions made him feel ill and unable to do the hard brain work of his profession, and so he is one of those who are assisting to maintain the institution of prostitution. The wife is unhealthy, sleepless and very "difficile."

Dr. Robie writes "The present writer has the advantage of knowing the inner lives of thousands of married people whose whole lives are exemplary and whose idealism is unquestioned. His knowledge of many of these men and women extends over more than a quarter of a century. . . . The method of moral restraint and sublimation wrecks homes among the people who have high ideals just as surely as unbridled licen-