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Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Marriage and Love BY EMMA GOLDMAN Price Ten Cents MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 210 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER BERKMAN _A Unique Contribution to Socio-Psychological Literature_ THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY REPRESENTS THREE PHASES: I) The Revolutionary Awakening and its Toll--The _Attentat_ II) The Allegheny Penitentiary: Fourteen Years in Purgatory III) The Resurrection and After _Price One Dollar Fifty_ Send Advance Subscription to MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 210 EAST THIRTEENTH STREET NEW YORK THE BOOK IS NEARING COMPLETION AND WILL BE ISSUED IN THE EARLY SPRING Marriage and Love BY EMMA GOLDMAN Price Ten Cents MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 210 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK MARRIAGE AND LOVE The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition. Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. No doubt some marriages have been the result of love. Not, however, because love could assert itself only in marriage; much rather is it because few people can completely outgrow a convention. There are today large numbers of men and women to whom marriage is naught but a farce, but who submit to it for the sake of public opinion. At any rate, while it is true that some marriages are based on love, and while it is equally true that in some cases love continues in married life, I maintain that it does so regardless of marriage, and not because of it. On the other hand, it is utterly false that love results from marriage.…