Excerpt from Book of Marriage: A New Interpretation by Twenty-Four Leaders of Contemporary Thought
To my invitation to contribute to The Book of Marriage, Bernard Shaw replied: "No man dare write the truth about marriage while his wife lives. Unless, that is, he hates her, like Strindberg; and I don"t. I shall read the volume with interest, knowing that it will consist chiefly of evasions; but I will not contribute to it."
This is one of Shaw"s famous boutades. No one has written more openly on marriage, and yet without causing offence, than he. However, I gladly make use of the Irish sage"s witty sally as preface to this book, because in a humorous form it cautions simultaneously against two very serious dangers when treating of marriage problems: the danger of cowardly concealment and the danger of indiscretion. In fact, no one can hope to assist in dealing with this most intimate of all questions whose fearlessness does not empower him to speak of all without causing injury, and whose very nobility of character would make it quite impossible to divulge private matters, so that an unprejudiced person could never even think of interpreting his statements as disclosures. The first and last aim of The Book of Marriage is to help. Consequently courage and purity are the twin sources of its inspiration.
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