Yellowly would have every one married, Reed every one occupied, in the world, society being thus at its best.—Author, chap. i.
I propose to illustrate the twenty-second century, on which we now enter, by reference to one subject only, but yet a subject so important and comprehensive as to involve very much else in human relations, and thus to approve itself a good characteristic illustration. In short, I propose to treat of marriage, in some of the chief features which that social condition itself, as well as the various ways and preparations for attaining it, presented in the twenty-second century. The progress of the world may perhaps be quite as characteristically shown in this particular direction, as in any other. Given, youth and the two sexes, there will always be marrying and giving in marriage. Let us, then, see how they managed this important business of human life in the century which we have now reached.
