Excerpt from Free Love: Or a Philosophical Demonstration of the Non-Exclusive Nature of Connubial Love, Also, a Review of the Exclusive Feature of the Fowlers, Adin Ballou, H. C. Wright, and Andrew Jackson Davis on Marriage Weadd further - nthe friends of Free Love are not alone responsible for the general spreadvof theimore radical phases of these' principles. The history of the past plainly shows that our opponents would never let -us alone. Mr; Noyes was not allowed to rest in peace, in tlie retirement of his own private or selectafriends, and his own society. So it has ever been: with myself. But so far from'regretting the influencewhich has'been'brought' to bear upon us, Welare; at least, most grateful to a-kind and wise Providence for in this way freeing us from the lingering remains of what We now believe was a false conservatism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.