Marriage, its realist character and its difficulties-The aim of marriage not personal satisfaction-The girl married blindfold-The father -Marriageable age-Interviews-Reflections of the father-Ideas of the bridegroom elect-His physical and moral criterion -His uneasiness-Final crisis-Ideas of Michelangelo and
Girls brought up solely by their mothers-Old theory of early marriage -Education, especially physical and moral-Opinion of moralists and physicians: counsels of Anne of France-Utilitarian system of Germany-The intensive school: Vivès; St. Theresa; the Spanish system-The aesthetic school: Dolce; the Italian system- Louise of Savoy-New theory of late marriage-Protests against
The good old times-Moral degeneration-Ambition, money-Evil, to be cured homœopathically as in Italy, or allopathically as in Germany -Virtue, must it necessarily be tiresome ?-Raphael's