SIR,—II was not altogether out of place to bring Diana
of the Ephesians, or any of her sisters, into the discussion on marriage and divorce. I remember gazing upon a statue of this many-breasted goddess in Naples Museum, and thinking how strange it was that man as man should ever become such an ass (to quote a phrase of Apuleius) as to be hoodwinked into accepting such a flagrant violation of nature and the principle of sex. In fact, it appears that St. Paul had little difficulty in convincing the Ephesians of their folly, and the trouble began when he became involved with those, like Demetrius, who had their wealth by this unnatural cult.
Our Lord seems to have been careful to point out that marriage was confined to the natural order and therefore could speak of a kingdom where " they neither marry nor are given in marriage." That being so, it is not unlikely that the biologist may have a more important contribution to make than either priest or lawyer to the solution of the problem of divortium a vinculo. At least, he can be expected to understand how male and female become one flesh, and to appreciate how that one flesh, the child, remains as a permanent union of the
twain.—Yours faithfully, J. JONES-DAVIES. Llywel Vicarage, Trecastle, Breconshire.
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