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"A modern man," said Dr. Cyrus Pym, "must, if he be thoughtful, approach the problem of marriage with some caution. Marriage is a stage-doubtless a suitable stage-in the long advance of mankind towards a goal which we cannot as yet conceive; which we are not, perhaps, as yet fitted even to desire. What, gentlemen, is the ethical position of marriage? Have we outlived it?"
"Outlived it? " broke out Moon; "why, nobody's ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve-and all as dead as mutton."