Women, Children, Love, and Marriage

WOMEN, CHILDREN, LOVE AND MARRIAGE
BY C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY AUTHOR OF “THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMAN,” “WOMEN’S WILD OATS,” “MOTHER AND SON,” ETC.
London HEATH CRANTON, LIMITED 6 Fleet Lane E.C.4 1924
Printed in Great Britain for Heath Cranton, Ltd., by Clements Bros., Chatham
And we won’t, we simply will not face the world as we’ve made it, and our own souls as we find them, and take the responsibility. We’ll never get anywhere till we stand up man to man and face everything out, and break the old forms, but never let our pride and courage of life be broken. D. H. LAURENCE in “Aaron’s Rod.”

The essays here collected were written on various occasions over a considerable space of time. This will account for the diversity in the subjects and for a certain amount of restatement of my own beliefs and position.
I have not thought it advisable to attempt to alter this, since though some of the things I have said before may be repeated, the point of view and special application are in each case different.
Some of the essays have appeared already in various journals, but all have been very carefully revised and altered and the great majority entirely re-written.
In spite of the diversity of the subjects there is a common idea beneath all the essays—a common back-ground of faith. I do not know whether I am justified in my confidence that this idea—this faith is abundantly manifest. If I should try to formulate it into one short statement, I should say it was the responsibility that the old have to the young—the debt that one generation owes to the next.
In my gospel there is one commandment which may not be broken: Ye shall not hurt a little child.
C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY.