. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE CONSIDERED AS A DISCIPLIXE OF CHARACTER. Certainly wife and children are a kind of Discipline of Humanity. — Bacon. I well remember the bright assenting laugh which she (Mrs. Carlyle)once responded to some wonls of mine, when the propriety was being of relaxing the marriage laws. I had said that the true way to lookat marriage was as a discipline of character.—Froiidc. ID you ever see anytliing so absurd as a horsesprawling like that ? This was the hasty ex-clamation of a connoisseur on taking up
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE CONSIDERED AS A DISCIPLIXE OF CHARACTER. Certainly wife and children are a kind of Discipline of Humanity. — Bacon. I well remember the bright assenting laugh which she (Mrs. Carlyle)once responded to some wonls of mine, when the propriety was being of relaxing the marriage laws. I had said that the true way to lookat marriage was as a discipline of character.—Froiidc. ID you ever see anytliing so absurd as a horsesprawling like that ? This was the hasty ex-clamation of a connoisseur on taking up a smallcabinet picture. Excuse me, replied theowner, you hold it the wrong way: it is a horsegalloping. So much depends upon the way wc- look at the preceding chapter we spoke of making the best of badmatrimonial bargains. Perhaps it would help some people todo this if they looked at marriage from a different point oiview—if they considered it as a discipline of character ratlierthan as a short cut to the highest heaven of happiness. Ccr- 6. 66 HOIV TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. tainly this is a practical point of view, and it may be that thosewho marry in this spirit are more Hkely to use their matrimonyrightly than those who start with happiness as their only people get happiness by being willing to pass it by anddo without it rather than by directly pursuing it, is as true ofdomestic felicity as of other kinds. Ven youre a married .man, Samivel, says !Mr. Weller tohis son Sam, youll understand a good many things as youdont understand now; but vether its worth while going throughso much to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got tothe end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste : I rayther think itisnt. Strange that a philosopher of the senior j\Ir. Wellersprofundity should underestimate in this way the value of matri-mony as a teacher. We have it on the authority of a widowerwho was thrice married, that his first wife cured his romance, these
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