What do you think of women--generally
speaking, I mean?"
Marten replied, without a moment's hesitation:
"Thank God I'm a Jew. You must take that into consideration. I think
the Mormons have made a good shot at solving the woman question, if the
question exists at all. Mormonism is a protest against monogamy. And
please observe that it's a protest not on the part of man alone. It's a
protest on the part of woman. Never forget that. In fact, I don't
believe any woman would ever bind herself to one fool of a man if she
had her own way. She wouldn't marry at all. She needn't, nowadays. She
won't, very soon. A man who marries--well, there may be some excuse for
him, though a love-match is generally a failure and a money-match
always a mistake. The heroes, the saints and sages--they are those who
face the world alone. A married man is half a man."
"Ahem!"
Marten was silent.
"I did not ask you to stop," said Denis. "You've got it very pat!"
"Plain sailing, my boy. It's the social reformers and novelists who
create these artificial conundrums; they want to sell their rotten
literature; they want to make us forget that the only interesting and
important part of the business is what nobody talks or writes about.
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