As my first purpose, however, is to show the aesthetic value of marriage, and how it is distinguished from passion for its ethical and religious character. In so far as this character expresses itself in a particular act, in the nuptial blessing, I will stop in that act. That way I won't seem to make my task too easy, and I'll avoid the slightest appearance of concealing the schism between passion and marriage, a schism that so many others,...