The Moral Tone in England
IN a recent issue of the London Daily Mail, Sir A. Conan Doyle is reported as saying that there are two hundred thousand men and women separated in his country, and "that the lower classes were rotted through and through" by the law which made it possible for them to be divorced. Concerning the law he said: "The ingenuity of man could not possibly have been used to invent a more demoralizing thing than the Acts of Separation had been. Divorce was not an evil, but a cure,—a deplorable cure for a deplorable state of affairs. He had no doubt that if all of these suggested reforms came about there would be a deluge of divorces for some little time, and every one would hold up their hands. It would be the opening of an ulcer which had got to be opened, and after opening it they would see what was below the surface." If the world is getting better and better all the time, as some people try to make us believe, why are men who have to deal with social affairs, continually confronting us with facts of this character?