Note 1334 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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The output of controversial literature on this subject may have been great, as Friedberg (op. cit., 328 n. 2) suggests; but the number of pamphlets preserved does not seem to be large. In the valuable collection of the Sutro Library, containing thousands of pamphlets covering nearly every possible question debated at the time, I have been able to discover but two pieces on the civil-marriage law. One of these, a copy of the periodical entitled Several Proceedings of Parliament, publishes the act, which had just passed, without a word of comment. Friedberg had a similar experience in the Berlin Library.