Canon X.—“If any one shall say that marriage is preferable to virginity or celibacy, and that it is not better and happier to remain in virginity or celibacy than to be bound in wedlock; let him be accursed.” A good many, doubtless, are quite satisfied that it is not happier or better to dwell in the shades and darkness of a single life, than to rejoice in the light of wedded love; and would say with the Almighty: “That it is not good that the man should be alone,” even though his “Holiness” of Rome should curse them for it.