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    This document discusses marriage as an "honorable estate" but questions whether it is any good. It notes that society has undergone many social revolutions since the early 20th century that have changed how men and women live, especially women. While hatred, cruelty, and war may continue to arise in future generations from humanity's barbaric beginnings, each generation understands these forces better and knows better how to withstand them and build a society.

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    Slides to accompany Pecha Kucha about Vera Brittain's Honourable Estate.

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    This document discusses marriage as an "honorable estate" but questions whether it is any good. It notes that society has undergone many social revolutions since the early 20th century that have changed how men and women live, especially women. While hatred, cruelty, and war may continue to arise in future generations from humanity's barbaric beginnings, each generation understands these forces better and knows better how to withstand them and build a society.

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    This document discusses marriage as an "honorable estate" but questions whether it is any good. It notes that society has undergone many social revolutions since the early 20th century that have changed how men and women live, especially women. While hatred, cruelty, and war may continue to arise in future generations from humanity's barbaric beginnings, each generation understands these forces better and knows better how to withstand them and build a society.

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    Not Without Honour

    marriage is an honourable estate

    PART I

    Parts II-III

    HONOURABLE ESTATE = MATURITY STRENGTH DIGNITY

    But is it any good?

    worthy but dull

    To-day men and women, but especially women, live in a very different world from that of 1870, or 1900, or 1910. Even since 1914, weve passed through a whole series of social revolutions. There are others to come which I shall not see, for reason and mercy will have to fight their battle with passion and injustice for ever. Hatred and cruelty and perhaps even war will come again, in my childrens time and the time of their children; theyre the dark forces from our barbaric beginnings which are always being conquered and always rising again. But with every generation we know them better for what they are. We know more clearly what we should withstand and how we should build.

    To my mind the pitiless condemnation of sex-offences illustrates exactly that self-indulgent evasion of fundamentals which societys capable of at its worst.

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