At stated times we mortals have stated visitations.
One day it is the grippe, next day the financial problem.
Just now it is the marriage and divorce question, with much
learned expounding by the good and the pure, such as bishops and
members of Sorosis. ----
What is marriage? How did it begin? Whence does it come?
Why is it a feature of human life wherever that life is found.
You must begin with such questions. Always study beginnings.
Nothing can be learned by taking hold of a thing in the middle
and examining its imperfections.
The first priest to join man and woman together was no benign
being with lawn sleeves and soul-stirring words.
Marriage was brought about on this earth by the will and wisdom
of God Almighty working through primitive babyhood.
In the old days, when the world was cruder, men and women ran
wild through forests and swamps. They fought nature, fought each
other, as savage as other beasts around them. There was no love;
there was no marriage. The instincts of self-preservation and
of reproduction worked alone to keep the race here through its
hard childhood. ----
But in cold stone caves or in rough nests under fallen tree
trunks savage children were born and nursed by their savage
mothers with savage affection.
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