They may have different tastes, different opinions and
different inclinations. All those differences may disappear, and will
probably disappear; because by living together they become accustomed
to each other, and become equalized in time. Each influences the other,
and as a man may grow fond of a pet snake, whose presence at first
horrified him, so a man may put up with a disagreeable partner and
become fond of her in course of time.
But if the man allows full liberty to his animal passions, and exercises
his "legal rights" without restraint, these animal cravings which first
called so piteously for gratification, will soon be gorged, and flying
away laugh at the poor fool who nursed them in his breast. The wife
will come to know that her husband is a coward, because she sees him
squirm under the lash of his animal passions; and as woman loves
strength and power, so in proportion as he loses his love, will she lose
her confidence. He will look upon her as a burden, and she will look
upon him in disgust as a brute. Conjugal happiness will have departed,
and misery, divorce or death will be the end.
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